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Yes, goat's mill works during re-mill (substitute in place of the water). That gives total control over the amount of unprocessed milkfat left behind in the bar, especially useful if you don't have enough goat's milk to make the entire batch from it. By remilling, I am talking about what many...

If you do have a local source for KOH, it is likely to be a restaurant supplier. Aqueous KOH is used in commercial dish-washing as a sterilizing rinse. These KOH dish-washing rinses can be used for soap-making and are a little easier than using anhydrous (dry, powdered) KOH because it is already...

When in doubt, or if you get odd results, put lye-sensitive additives in during cold process remill or after hot process when the lye is done.

The OP is probably doing that to prevent the EO from interacting with the lye. If EOs (sometimes colors and other additives) are added during remill when the lye is done acting, you get tighter control. With some combinations of EO or color, you can get very unexpected results in the first run...

Interesting discussion. As far as moisturizing properties of left-over oils go, the only plausible mechanism is that there may be a preference created by the fact that some oils are more readily absorbed by the skin than others. Readily absorbable non-saponified oils in the bar may be absorbed...