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I made four loaves of soap on Friday (two “First Snow” and two “We Three Kings”) I usually cut between 12 and 24 hours but I didn’t cut them until today (Sunday evening) so 48 hours later. They weren’t too hard to cut, although the edges did end up a bit rough (which is fine because I bevel my...

I used the Commiphora Murrah at .8% of the oils. Is the soap safe?

Ok I’m going to go for .8% of my oils! Thanks everyone! (:

So does that mean it can be used at 2-3% of oils in cold process?

Does anyone know the usage rate of myrrh? I can’t find it anywhere online, including eocalc.

Does this look like it’s between 9 and 10? That’s fine, right? All of my soaps tested with the same color but when i see other soapers test the ph of their bars it’s usually green.

how do I keep my batter white if it gets that hot? When I go above 85-90 the milk turns a yellow color.

I made the fall one first 😕 It’s high I’m coconut oil, olive oil, and Shea butter. It also includes castor oil, cocoa butter, and avocado oil. I usually soap around 80 degrees. It’s a blend of essential oils that I have used before individually. I haven’t used the blend though. But the...

Hello all! So, when I make soap I make a 16.5 pound batch and split it in two, making three loaves of one kind of soap and three of another kind (my recipe is VERY slow moving so I’m able to do this) Recently I’ve been having stearic spots show up in my soap, but they will often only appear in...

I’ll explain my question differently lol So if I have two eo’s that I want to use in a recipe, but each of them have a usage rate of 168 grams for my recipe but I want to add BOTH not just one, I should add 84 grams of each, correct?

This might be a dumb question… If I can add 168 grams of lavender eo to my recipe and can use the same amount of another essential oil but want to blend them, do I add 168 grams of each or do I split each in half? I hope that makes sense!

The soap turned out fine! It lightened to the normal creamy color and did not crack. Thanks everyone!

No, to the oils.

But the last time I made it this didn’t happen. Although this time I added the honey before the lye, maybe that’s what happened. Goat

This soap has me confused… It’s an oatmeal and honey soap that I’ve made in the past, the only thing that happened differently was I worked at higher temps (I forgot my oils on the burner so they got to 200 degrees, I waited for them to get down a bit and then mixed them with my liquid oils...