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I have a few different questions that I hope someone can help with. **First, have you ever mixed your lye water and it turn a light brownish tint? What is that and why? I thought maybe my stainless steel bowl wasn't clean enough so I dumped the first water, thoroughly cleaned it and made...

Do you have a favorite? I have always used my KD-7000, but I am beginning to think that my trouble with my soaps is the scale (as I have troubleshooted almost every other area- thanks to many of your help!) I do love the tare feature and that it is supposed to read to the hundredths. I say...

When using fragrance oils, what is the general amount you use? For example, for a 3 lb. mixture of soap, how many ounces of fragrance oil would you use? Typically, do you use less of an essential oil or more than a fragrance oil? Thanks!

Can Titanium Dioxide go "bad" or "rancid" or somehow effect the quality of CP Soap? I have some titanium dioxide from 2009, that I started to use the other day, then I wasn't sure about it. My thought is that it shouldn't be any trouble at all, but I thought I'd see if anyone knew for sure...

I have been having a cosmetic issue with all my soaps that I believe is DOS. I have tried so many things to fix it that I am almost at the point of not wanting to make any more. The soap still smells great and works wonderfully, I just don't like those little random yellowish spots. I keep my...

what essential oil would be good to blend with some of the citrus essentials to help it last longer?

Like alkanet root, annetto seed, etc.?

Do you always use one of these in your soap making? If you don't always use it, what are the times that you do use it? What is the difference between the two in soap purposes?

So, I used petroleum jelly for a pvc round mold and an overflow plastic tub. When I went to get the soap out, the vaseline seems to still be on the soap. Even after trying to rub it off, it looks to have splotched it. Any ideas or help on how to fix this and how to do it better next time?

How do I determine what percent to set this at? Or do I just leave it at 5%? Supposing I typically add 1 oz. per pound of base oils as a superfat. By the way, are there any great books with recipes, setting the superfat discount, lye concentration, base oil percentages, etc.? Thanks!

I made an Olive Oil Soap a couple of months ago. Now it seems to be changing from all white to yellowish in spots. Any idea why?

I just got set up a very basic site for my soaps. Nothing spectacular, but something, anyways. http://www.CleanSlateSoaps.com Any suggestions, opinions? I know we don't have online ordering set up yet, so we are working on it. Thanks, Selah

What is a good recipe for a vanilla soap? I'd like to use only EO, no FO. I think I had also heard that vanilla can be tricky to work with? Why is that? Thanks!

So I had read somewhere that someone used 100% cranberry juice to color their "Pink Grapefruit" soap. So, I tried it last night ... however, it started to turn my soap a blue/green! My recipe included grapefruit EO and sweet orange EO. I also, added wheatgerm oil and grapeseed oil to...

which additive oils to superfat with? Some have similar properties, so I wondered how you choose. I am making a soap tonight with Grapefruit EO and sweet orange EO. My base oils are palm, olive, and coconut. I was going to add either jojoba, wheatgerm, avocado, sweet almond, or grapeseed...

When using the soap calc., what is the benefit is setting your own values to the lye concentration and the lye ratio? It creates a percentage, but I am assuming, since it allows you to set your own value, that must be a preference for something. And what about the 'water as percentage of...

I am wanting to make a mostly olive oil soap, but it seems that olive oil on its own, makes a very soft and non-cleansing bar. So, I added 15% coconut to the 85% olive oil, but the soap calc INS is only 131 and they say for it to be 145-165. Plus, some of the other soap qualities don't...

So, if I realized that my crisco was old AFTER I already made the soap .... what should I do? Is the soap bad? Is it still usable? Thanks!

I have generally tried to achieve 98 degrees for the lye solution and the oils. Recently, though, I have seen some recipes saying to heat to 103 or as low as 87. How do you know what temp to go for?

have a good (1)cinnamon spice recipe and a (2)grapefruit recipe? (1) I have cinnamon and nutmeg spices, but I am assuming I need to include an essential oil, right? Also, not sure on which oils to use? (2) I have only .5 oz. of grapefruit essential oil. I don't really want to...