Recent content by hoegarden

Hiyo, I think that one of my major concern is that I did ice cube the rice water. So the lye temperature went up to 170degree before going back to room temperature... so not sure if the soap quality will be compromise as the high temperature might have altered the properties of the rice water...

Hi, Did you consider the temperature for this? It could be... But I don’t know... That is why I am thinking if a lower temperature handling method to be used so that the starch content will not be affected by high temperature when mix with lye...

Hi, It was my first batch of soap using rice water or rice milk as you mentioned... For that, I am still confused over how would you call water and how will it call milk...

Hi fellows, I soak water in rice and blend up the whole liquid... i filtered out the rice after and and in as scrub after trace... So the rice water is filtered out from the blended mixture

Hi fellow soapers, Need a little help here... I did a batch of soap using rice water to dissolve the lye... While waiting for the temperature to drop, the lye mixture kind of gel up... Is that normal? I am now thinking if the soap should be done the way like milk soap where you do at super...

Will this be good for milk soap too?

This is kind of sad, I ordered a batch of Butters from Butters and Bars in November and these precious still haven't reach me. I am planning to get a new batch. Is there any recommendation for sellers for butters that shipped overseas to Singapore?

This soap will be very moisturising due to the high amount of cocoa butter. I don't think this will be garbage either. I have a friend who use this much of cocoa butter in her soaps and the effect is lovely.

I use the wheatgerm oil here. I add the wheatgerm oil to my whole batch of other oil before adding in the lye. I don't usually add in oil to the soap mixture after mixing/tracing. I am bad at that and thus not willing to risk that I am not able to mix in the oil at trace.

Actually with the current formula, I won't expect my superfat to be more than 10% here. This is a repeated formula and I have no issue previously. Thus, I was rather shock to see this batch ending up like that. I usually cure for 2 months before wrapping up but for this batch, it was cured...

I hope these 3 pictures are clearer

I did a CP here. The parts with those funny spots and colour do have a weird smell. So I cut away those parts and check again. The soap without the spots and colour still smell okay.

Is this done the cold process way?

My measurements for oil and lye are in Grams. The soap was done around Jun15 and I let it cure for 1 month. EO use is ginger and lemon.

I will try to upload clearer pictures later on.