Recent content by BrettHartel

I do not see any partial gel :)

We have lift off! It appears my soap was boiling and leaving it uncovered did the trick :D Thank you everone!

Thank you, HowieRoll! I didn't know I could soap at room temperature! I don't even have to heat up my oils if they are liquid then! Also, thank you for the article. If this batch comes out bad, I will try mixing the batter until a thick trace and see if that does the trick.

My recipe: 957g Sunflower Oil + 130.5g Lye + 362.5g water. I mix at 140F and pour at a medium trace. I do burp my stick blender :D And I pour my lye water on my stick blender as I mix it into the oils.

Thank you, HowieRoll. It took some brainstorming! I paid a woodworker to carve a piece of wood into a soap design I had in mind. Then I used silicone to make a mold for soap.

No, I only used the Cold Process method. But, I did freeze the soap to take it out of the mold easily. 24 hours later.

I recently starting making my own soap. The first mold I made used 12 oz of silicone and works well. After that, I made three more with thinner walls using 4 oz of silicone. Does a thin mold wall affect soap? The smooth bar on the right is from my thick mold. The left and center, with weird...