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    FO amount for powdered laundry

    I made some homemade powdered laundry soap. Wondering how much fragrance oil to add per lb of powder? I have a store named buff city soap near me and they add it after the fact but I don't know how much they use and it sticks through the laundry cycle.
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    Adding FO to laundry soap

    So there is a place near me called buff city soap. They make your laundry soap on site and add whatever fragrance you like. I have been making my own laundry soap(Heavy lye coconut oil only soap), borax, washing soda, citric acid, oxiclean. But I never add any fragrance because to me the...
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    Fast trace

    I am having issues with a face trace, like less than 2 minutes of mixing, I have trace. Here is my recipe. I also add three tablespoons of rolled oats and one table spoon of activated charcoal. Recipe attached
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    Tool suggestion

    This belongs in cold process. Whoops.
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    Tool suggestion

    Has anyone come up with a way other than stick blending? I was wanting something a little less hands on. I was thinking like a tumbler with something in the middle to agitate it?
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    Making Potash

    So i have a farm and we burn quite a bit of fire wood. I was wondering how to measure the concentration of the potash if i made it. I understand the boiling down of it to concentrate it, but how do you plug it into a recipe?
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    Dilution

    Well thickness. Strange thing is when you read a body wash from the store it sometimes has both koh and Naoh. The soap I just had was supppppper thick. So it seems I may just be doing this from now on. I actually used 1 part naoh to 2 parts koh. It actually turned out great.
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    Dilution

    Has anyone tried to use like 90% koh and 10% Naoh? I just did this and will wait to see the results but was curious if anyone else tried it.
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    Dilution

    Benefits of thickness. I can't find the article now, of course. I use distilled water at the dilution and it worked fine. But I read either full glycerin or half and half for dilution. I may try it and give it a go. Who doesn't always need more soap!
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    Dilution

    I was reading around and saw some people dilute with all vegetable glycerin. Has anyone tried this?
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    Time to add scent

    When is the best time to add scent. I made a fir/orange castille soap and that worked out fine adding during dilution. I had a fragrance oil that warped its smell when putting it in during dilution. Does the heat make a difference? I always thought it should be when its a little warmer than...
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    Laundry soap

    Citric acid would bring towards an acid on the pH scale. I think you would want more of a base to clean
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    SC sent the wrong oil... Experience and other options?

    I use them exclusively and never had any problems. Really cool thing since I'm in st Louis and they are in Chicago it takes one day in shipping time. I really like them!
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    Laundry soap

    If its fine enough you can use cold water
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    Laundry soap

    I do -5% and never have an issue with excess lye. It goes away eventually. I still use %100 tallow for stain sticks and 50-50 tallow, CO for laundry soap.
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