Dead Sea Salt

[shedaisy]

Hi all where could I purchase Dead sea Salt in Australia want to make a nice facial bar of soap. Love this forum. Thank you for your time.

 

[trishwosere]

Do not use dead sea salt -use either table, sea, rock even cooking salt, but if you use dead sea salt you'll end up with a gloopy mess, It doesn't soap well -I think it's because it has so many other minerals included that it just 'dissolves'. Hopefully one of the soap masters or mods will explain it better to you than me.

 

[paillo]

Do not use dead sea salt -use either table, sea, rock even cooking salt, but if you use dead sea salt you'll end up with a gloopy mess, It doesn't soap well -I think it's because it has so many other minerals included that it just 'dissolves'. Hopefully one of the soap masters or mods will explain it better to you than me.

this! it will set up the texture of cement, weeping, sweating, no lather and nothing nice to say for it. it's about the only soap i've made for which there was no remedy except trashing it. dead sea salt is lovely in bath bombs, salts and other products -- save yourself some grief and use it anywhere but in soap.

 

[shedaisy]

Thank you ladies, I think I will give the salt a miss & try the mud instead.

 

[paillo]

mud in facial bars is lovely. i use dead sea mud and reduce my water a little bit to compensate for the mud's extra moisture. have fun!

 

[Padamae]

My 2nd or third batch if cold process soap I thought how pretty the pink salt would be as embeds. It hardened in my bowl before I even had a chnce to spoon even a quarter of it in the molds i had out. Ever since then I have not tried to add any salt to the soap. But I am getting confident i want to try with reg sea salt in The lye water.