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Right i have not been on the forum in ages been dealing with life as ya do when it starts going pear shape. But i stumbled across my soap making box moving things (we are remodeling our 1850's end terrace home) and i have started to get the urge to make some soap again. My lye and everything...

Right so I have read a few soap books now and each seem to have at lest one castile type soap with salt added to them wither mixed in the lye water or oil (added it to warm oil in my case) added 1 tbs of salt ( might be slightly more then I needed as my oils are 1.7lbs in weight oops) it came...

I have made quite a few batches in my short time making soap and have had no real issues. But yesterday I made a soap using sweet almond oil, castor oil, cocoa butter,coconut oil, fresh in date lard and beef tallow, shea butter and olive oil pomace that had white sage,palo santo, alkanet root...

Since I just stated getting into soap making that also means I'm using my own or other's homemade lye based shampoo/body bars to wash my hair but we have hard water and my hair is left greasy as sin, believe this is due to hard water and my hair use to being stripped then coated in demithicone...

Ok I have used melt and pour bases until I decided to move up to making soap with lye. Tonight I just read a book that stated it's soap making method 1 was a M&P base to which you add lye,colors, fragrance/EOs etc. Maybe I'm just really dumb but last time I checked a m&p base did not need added...

Has anyone tried powdered palo santo in CP soap?

I have used melt and pour bases in the past just because they are quick simple no real wait time but I wanted something more traditional if you will. So I have decided I am going to make a batch of cold process soap I bought the things I would like in a soap like raw unrefined shea butter &...