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I've halved my O/O with sunflower oil in a sample batch. I can't tell the difference. Still nice and lathery and moisturising.

It's a broard spectrum preservative so will be ok

Hi Estintre, I've (successfully) made a few emulsions and have used Preservative K from Aromantic.co.uk. It's about £4 for 30ml +£4 delivery. It's only drawback is the final emulsion has to be below 5 ph, but I've never had a problem. I also use BTMS 25 as my emulsifier with cetearyl alcohol.

I make a beeswax and honey soap, I heat the honey with the beeswax in a pot in a pan of boiling water the add it to the hot oils. Never had any problems. Just got to watch while it's gelling and get ready to put in the fridge .... it gets hot!!

I use turmeric, paprika, parsley and organic cocoa. I mix paprika or turmeric in oil and heat in the microwave for about 90 secs and leave a couple of days to infuse. For the parsley, I dry in the oven and then whizz in a spice grinder. Before adding to the batter I add to a small amount of oil...

I also make a calendula soap, never thought about infusing with the lye. Definitely try on the next batch :)

Send me your email in a PM and I'll send you one that i've been using for the last couple of years :)

Made some mold liners out of PTFE oven liners as recommended by AliOop, worked perfectly, no leaks and re-useable! Never going back to cutting grease proof paper linings again :)

I just use the finely cut orange peel, no white pithe. Maybe try a different type of orange?

I use tap water and boil it to drive off the chlorine and then left to stand for 24 hours. The water that we are supplied with is really good, fresh off the Pennines (hills in Yorkshire)

Hi from Yorkshire! I also use different suppliers. For my EO, mainly Mother Natures Goodies Olive oil, Aldi Palm Oil, Bookers C&C Coconut oil, up your way Morrisons food services Other oils, Pearl Natural Oils I find all these the cheapest and great quality. :) Just noticed the OP was 4 years ago!!

I make and sell a beeswax and honey soap, and people love it. I use it at 2.5% and same with the honey. I dont get any problems with acceleration. You have to make sure your oils are as hot as the beeswax when you add it or you will get flakey bits of beeswax solidifying. It does get hot (due to...

Hi Shellonian Wellcome to the forum :) I learnt most of my soap making skills from this very forum, everyone is so helpful. I'm in Yorkshire (God's own county), and have been selling now for about 18 months. I'm stocked in about 6 craft/gift shops in Yorkshire, and do quite well on Etsy, Ebay...

You have to oven dry the peel long and slow, 100 degrees C for a couple of hours, then I grind them to a fine powder in a spice grinder, cost about £10. I keep the powder in a sealed jar. Leave for a while and then have a sniff .... gorgeous!!

Room temp here too, unless I'm using beeswax, then use lye and oils warm.