Recent content by Douging

Bacon fat soap was the very first soap I ever made. My first batch was 100 percent beer and cleaned fat. I made a giant chunk of it and it was like a piece of cement, shattered when I cut it. But it was a great soap. I now use rainwater instead of beer, 80% cleaned bacon fat, 15 % Coconut and...

After having three different batches of soap go through ricing- which is small globules become soap suspended in oil, i finally solved my problem. The wine soap and charcoal soap ended up completely solidifying over time. The Shea lard soap would’ve as well I realize- your oils cannot be too...

My bacon fat soaps get hard so quickly that I have to pour them into a mould. This is me assuming lard is the same as bacon fat. My last recipe was 90 % bacon fat and 10% caster oil What is your recipe that leads to slow curing?

My chocolate soap has no sugar-I use dark chocolate. I use a soap calculator to determine Lye water-there is no water discount. I'm just sharing a recipe that I will continue to make.

I have made what I consider my perfect chocolate soap recipe: I created my recipe based on what my friend who owned a now defunct soap store He uses 50 percent coconut oil and a full pound of chocolate for 10 pounds of soap. 30 ounces Coconut Oil 10 ounce Olive Oil 6 ounce castor oil 5 ounce...

So, once you pour soap, you place in freezer for four days? Then take out of freezer and unmould? Sounds great for aloe Vera soap