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Recently I noticed a lot of vegetable oil in the supermarket contain anti foaming agents. Now I understand why they are there for cooking but I was wondering if it had any effect to the lather if you used in making soap... Has anyone used an oil with the agent in it that could enlighten me or...

Does anyone use the Soap Queen andriod app? I was just wondering what people thought about it :)

I make my goat's milk soap with fresh milk but I was wondering if there was any difference between fresh or powered when used in soap. I have been told fresh is better as powdered looses some of the qualities when it is dried...does anyone know if this is true??

Does anyone know if there is any software available to keep track of ingredients, stock, supplier info and also have a customer data base for easy ordering? I would really love to streamline everything to make things less time consuming. :)

When using coconut cream in place of water do you calculate the fat in the cream into the lye calculator and if so how much do you allow for it? I have soaped for a long time adding powdered coconut milk in after trace but my grocery store had cans of cream on sale so I thought I would give...

After learning about oatmilk soap on the forum I made some oatmilk last night and two batches of soap today. The first with 25% oatmilk added at light trace and the second with 90% oatmilk...I mixed the lye into the slushy oatmilk which became thick and then mixed in water to thin it out...

Am I the only one that no longer uses palm oil in any of my soaps? As I hadn't made soap in a few years I thought I would try and gather some fun new recipes and was shocked to see they all still contained palm oil. Since all the media coverage brought the aspect of what is happening to...

Hi everyone, I have been soaping for around 13 years, but had a few years break until I ran out of soap and have decided I need to get back into it. lol I used to love chatting to fellow soap makers (on another forum) about ingredients and recipes, well actually just chatting in general and...