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We can use Palm Kernel. Thanks for the tallow recommendation. I may or may not have access to some local tallow in the next month or so—we shall see. Taking note of your recipe for then :) In the mean time I’d be open to buying some Palm and Palm Kernel oil. How much of it would you recommend...

Thank you for these links—they have been bookmarked! I took some time reading those pages and using the calculator again and I’m wondering what you would try. You mentioned in your last post that you aim for about a 60/40 split between hard and liquid oils. If I reduce the palm to 33% and keep...

Thank you for chiming in! I have to test if rice bran oil will be okay for us or not, but I know we have used some sunflower and safflower oil soaps that we liked. I have been on the fence about olive oil because we tried a commercial 100% olive oil soap before and the texture was...interesting...

Haha, thank you. Though one might argue I have enough hobbies, there’s always a little space left in my craft room to try one new thing! I’m really excited, there are so many talented makers on here! Thanks for the tip of using cocoa butter instead of coconut. Since I have no experience with...

QUOTE="AliOop, post: 874056, member: 29618"] Welcome! I also started making soaps, almost a decade ago now, due to lots of family allergies and reactivity to many artificial fragrances. It's such a gratifying process, and since you are a creative person, I'm sure you will love it! Since you can...

Thank you so much for the suggestion! We have not tested Rice Bran Oil. I will look into sourcing some to see if we can tolerate it. We do have rice in our diet so hopefully it will be okay! And thank you for linking me to Dawni’s posts. I’m reading through them, there’s quite a lot!

Hello everyone, This is my first time posting on this website. I’m pretty new here; I have been lurking for a few weeks and I’m still learning how to get around the site. I’m wanting to learn to make my own soap. I’m really creative and love making things and I think I could have fun with it...