spoiledpony
New Member
Hello all-
I stumbled onto this forum a few days ago and since have spent every spare minute (er, hours) reading posts. It seems like there are a lot of helpful and knowledgable folks here!
I'm hoping that some of you helpful, knowledgable folks might be willing to point out what I'm doing wrong? I've been making soap (just for myself & family) for over a year, always using the same recipe and process. The soap is nice: lathers well, doesn't dry out my skin etc. no complaints there...but it's just flat ugly! And I think it has the DOS (dreaded orange spots?) I've seen so much talk about, though it doesn't smell bad at all. I'll try to attach a pic here:
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hmmm, I don't think that worked, LOL!
What I'd LIKE to have is a nice, even creamy-white colored bar, instead of brown with orange spots!
My recipe is: (all by weight)
8 ozs Goat Milk, frozen
4.55 ozs Lye
6 ozs Olive Oil
22 ozs Coconut Oil
I used the lye calc from thesage.com.
I hope this isn't too long or asking too much on my first-ever post! If the process I used makes a difference I don't mind posting it.
kat.
I stumbled onto this forum a few days ago and since have spent every spare minute (er, hours) reading posts. It seems like there are a lot of helpful and knowledgable folks here!
I'm hoping that some of you helpful, knowledgable folks might be willing to point out what I'm doing wrong? I've been making soap (just for myself & family) for over a year, always using the same recipe and process. The soap is nice: lathers well, doesn't dry out my skin etc. no complaints there...but it's just flat ugly! And I think it has the DOS (dreaded orange spots?) I've seen so much talk about, though it doesn't smell bad at all. I'll try to attach a pic here:
[/img]
hmmm, I don't think that worked, LOL!
What I'd LIKE to have is a nice, even creamy-white colored bar, instead of brown with orange spots!
My recipe is: (all by weight)
8 ozs Goat Milk, frozen
4.55 ozs Lye
6 ozs Olive Oil
22 ozs Coconut Oil
I used the lye calc from thesage.com.
I hope this isn't too long or asking too much on my first-ever post! If the process I used makes a difference I don't mind posting it.
kat.
