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Update: Zap tested different areas of a few bars and all I get is the disgusting taste of fragrance oil. ;) Now I am kind of keen to try this again with the "adding water later" method and see what the results look like, but there are too many other designs to try first.

Royalty Soaps has a beginner series on Youtube with a starter recipe: (recipe pdf in the bio) I made my first soaps with it. The benefit is that you need few oils and it is very slow moving meaning you can stick blend it a lot and literally move very slowly until it gets too thick to work...

Excellent, so discolouration is normal, and I have got more soap makers to follow which will lead to more inspiration and more soaps and I already have too many soaps and I am moving country soon... ;) I made the two soaps in separate batches. Did not even occur to me you could mix in the water...

Beginnerish hobby soap maker trying increasingly complex designs asking the age old question: Is it lye or glycerin? Cut the soap after 21h, saw weird darker discolouration in addition to the two intended hues. Additionally, saw many little spots of moisture along the middle of most bars. The...