Is anyone using soapmaker 3? I need to start keeping track of costs so I finally got it up and running. One thing I noticed a quite a big difference in lye amounts between it and soapcal, has this been a issue for anyone?
I was wondering if you could elaborate on that going from a spreadsheet to a program. I don't really know the difference because I got it to calculate everything from recipe percentages to calculating price of all goods. The only thing it doesn't do is print labels like another comment said about the program. Everything is going smooth with me too doing it that way, I was just wondering if I was missing out on something?I downloaded it a few weeks ago and am still getting it set up. I'm hoping to have everything ready for the start of the new year.
My biggest issue has to do with lye amounts. Right now I calculate everything in a spreadsheet with the SAP values provided by my suppliers. As a result, I've had to do like lsg; I tweak the SF in SM3 until the amounts match my files. This gets complicated because I also test my NaOH for purity, and I can't set a purity % for NaOH in SM3 (like you can for KOH).
And then comes the issue with duel-lye bars. I have to use the Cream Soap settings, but again, I can't set the NaOH purity. It's taking a lot of fiddling to enter my bar soap recipe so that the amounts come out close to what I'm used to.
One of the things that's confusing me in SM3 is water discount... what is it?? I'm used to SoapCalc and it uses different terminology.
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