I find that hard to believe, I bet your soaps are gorgeous with all of your know how! Thanks for your feedback! I love Hot Process, today I’m trying a watermelon style soap. Even though I’m not really a fan of food looking soap or glitter etc. But my grandkids asked for it, so here I go..lol
I also loved working with madder root powder and spinach. Beautiful results in the hot process soaps. Thank you for the suggestion of changing default to lye concentration it really helped a lot.
This is a very good article. I also played with the recipes to see the different water amounts when changing to concentration. I am understanding better.
Thank you, I will do this next time. Should I keep it at 38% or do you suggest 25% concentration too? Wouldn’t that lower water? I have been reading and trying to understand and I know eventually it will all click. So, I just keep asking questions till it does. 😊
I do everything warm as well. But I obviously was deducting way too much. Thank you for sharing what works for you. I love the pointers and advice. 😊
Beautiful soaps! I love them.
I am a bit confused about percentages water to lye but not the oils. I always keep the top part the same and I...
I read vinegar helps with fluidity in HP. But I used white wine vinegar which turned my soaps brown. The soaps are performing very well. The rest are curing. I did the yellow bars without vinegar and they were not as fluid. But yes, it increases your super fat and decreases the lye strength. I...
I will change the concentration and not subtract from the batch water. I try not to stir it after the trace and let it volcano. Thats when I stir to calm it down. So, if you stir a lot you should go to a 30%? Thank you so much for the feedback. I sure need it there is so much to learn. Boy do I...
I’m not discouraged just being truthful. You can’t win them all. I could not wait to start today. I have been making HP soaps and working on fluidity but it’s getting worse. I suspect I am removing too much water to mix with mica’s from the lye water. I left more than the lyes weight in water...