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I am NOT talking about financial part, but how well they moisturize. I've tried whipped body butter, which I like, but I am thinking that maybe my body needs water too, not just oil. So, if I put butter on my body after shower, when I am not completely dried yet... Is this the same as when...

So, I have tried many recipes to see what suits me well. Bastille (10% of castor or coconut) and many other mixtures. All my recipes have nice soap calc number, cleansing 14 or less, high conditioning. I've tried superfatting from 7-20 % (although the ones 15-20% are still curing). I do notice...

Anyone else has the same problem? For some reason I can't cut it in smaller pieces (crappy scissors? they cut everything else fine). I do separate is as much as possible, but it's still dissolving so slooooowly. Is that just the way it is or is there some technique?

Anyone tried making it? http://www.snowdriftfarm.com/form_whippedsoaps.html It looks SOOO interesting. It seems to be a mixture between liquid and solid soap, so creamy looking. If I had all the ingredients, I would try it in no time.

I will tell you mine if you tell me yours. :wink: SO here it is. I have some liquid soap colorants and while I was preparing to start making soap, I realized that there is a security cap under the screw on lid on the bottle. So, if I removed both of them, the hole was going to be too big and I...

Everytime I wash my hands, some soap get stuck under my rings. Maybe my soap isn't hard enough, but still, I hate it!! I noticed yesterday, that my skin is slightly flaky under my rings, I bet it's from leftover soap that is drying that area. Thanks for letting me vent. :lol:

Finally I took a photo of my soaps. 8) 3 on top are my beginning soaps. The left one on the top is milk and honey, scented with lavanda. The middle one bastille, the right one milk honey, cinammon and oats (coarsely ground, but I love the rough peeling). In the middle, the greenish...

How high did you go? What were the results? Was the bar more moisturizing or was it just to oily? Maybe even spoiled quicker than other bars? The highest I went was 20% for salt bar. It's still curing so I don't know the results yet.

I haven't tried this and keep wanting too. But since I received a lot of excellent info here, I want to post this for those who want to give it a try. So, one can use red cabbage for testing pH of soap. I don't really know how well it works in soap making. so here is one of the links I was...

if it doesn't say so on the label? I am still trying to find one in France and can't find it.

So, in CP some of you believe that you can't choose an oil to superfat with. That's better to just mix everything in beginning. I also believe this to be true and I read that you could add FO at beginning so one have less problems with seizing or tracing too quickly. Now, I don't remember where...

I am somewhat limited on which and how many different oils I can use for soapmaking. So what I am wondering is, is it really so much better to use so many luxurious oils and fats in one bar? The oils I've used so far are: pumpkin seed, avocado, palm, coconut, olive and castor oil. I don't I...

Or better yet, in France?

So, I am thinking about making soap with some chocolate and all I can find here is already sweetened. I searched for a recipe and each one says unsweetened chocolate. I know I can use cacao, but I would like to add some chocolate too. I know that i have to be careful when sugar (or honey or...

SO, before I found solid NaOH I bought 30.5 % solution (NaOH only), but then I saw that I need at least 38%. So, is my only solution to add solid NaOH to the solution to get the right percentage or are there some recipes where I could use this solution alone? Maybe I can use it in recipes that...

As much as I love soap bar, I love liquid soap more in kitchen. So, I was thinking, can I use soap bar, melt it, add some distilled water and have my own liquid soap? I know I can make one using KOH, but it seems like this is more complicated to do.

My husband doesn't want to use bar soaps, because he says that liquid soaps are more hygienic, because hands don't get in touch with soap. I searched for a research confirming or denying this, but I found only one that said that it's unlikely that contaminated bar soaps would transfer bacteria...

Hello from a newbie. I made three batches of CP soap so far, all of them are still curing, but I can see the potential of the first one already (I washed my hands with it after 2 weeks of curing). :D When I am trying to argue why I like bar soaps, people say to me that our skin is acidic and...