Soaps_and_more
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Hi,
after the shaving soap I now made some make up brush cleaner soap. Both of them with high stearic acid content.
As this is a "special" ingredient I wanted to ask you for your advice, helpful hints and ideas.
It seems if you use a lot of stearic acid (30% was the highest I dared to go so far) its better not to soap too cool. Right?
The batter turned all crumbly after pouring the lye mixture in (KoH:NaoH; 60:40). That was the moment I used to put it into the shaving pots (for my first sa soap). But now I didn't have ideal containers for the brush cleaning soap and I discovered if you keep on stirring the whole thing gets quite liquid again. Heats up and gets liquid again.
So the questions would be:
soaping at higher temperatures: which ones do you use/recommend?
keep on stirring?
Would be thankful for any pointers you'd like to give.
Thank you
The recipe for the brush cleaning soap was just a simple coconut/castor/sa combination. Figured I don't need to go all conditioning and things, just cleaning.
after the shaving soap I now made some make up brush cleaner soap. Both of them with high stearic acid content.
As this is a "special" ingredient I wanted to ask you for your advice, helpful hints and ideas.
It seems if you use a lot of stearic acid (30% was the highest I dared to go so far) its better not to soap too cool. Right?
The batter turned all crumbly after pouring the lye mixture in (KoH:NaoH; 60:40). That was the moment I used to put it into the shaving pots (for my first sa soap). But now I didn't have ideal containers for the brush cleaning soap and I discovered if you keep on stirring the whole thing gets quite liquid again. Heats up and gets liquid again.
So the questions would be:
soaping at higher temperatures: which ones do you use/recommend?
keep on stirring?
Would be thankful for any pointers you'd like to give.
Thank you
The recipe for the brush cleaning soap was just a simple coconut/castor/sa combination. Figured I don't need to go all conditioning and things, just cleaning.