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    All-vegetable recipe

    @topofmurrayhill I`m using primo50 wax melter, so convenient and energy efficient, I`m very happy with it. I live in such a humid environment, definitely want to make it safe and use antioxidant. There is also a lot of competition here and from what I see on the labels, most of them don`t use...
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    All-vegetable recipe

    Thank you all for replies, especially @topofmurrayhill for such a detailed advise and your recipe, I`m gonna try to make that one and see if I like it better. @dixiedragon it does traces fast, but I`ve done it so many times, so learned to work fast with it even with most florals It`s all...
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    All-vegetable recipe

    Hi! I want to get some comments on this recipe ( what`s good and what`s not so). I`ve been happy with it so far, very hard bar, good leather, too thick to do any swirls, but thats not my biggest concern for this recipe. One of the suppliers told me to reduce palm oil, as it could fractionate and...
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    What soapy thing have you done today?

    Did a test shoot at the beach last night. What was interesting that all of my soaps got slippery while I was handling them. It was literally like using it in the shower, slipping out of my hands. I guess it`s the moisture content in the air. Even the cardboard box itself got moist. It was funny...
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    Canola DOS if ROE and Vitamin E used?

    I`m happy with half of the batch, the rest of it is OK, but not what was in my mind. It kind of looks like camo, especially on the sides. I wonder if I should discount water and see if it traces slower, as I`m reading about some experiments that state water discount actually slows down the trace...
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    What soapy thing have you done today?

    So this is an outcome from last weeks soaping. You can see on a third picture as soap batter reached thick trace in the middle of a pouring and stqarted layering instead of penetrating through layers. So, Im happy with half of the soaps. This one is a bastille recipe scented with Anise & White...
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    Canola DOS if ROE and Vitamin E used?

    So, I checked with the oils I had and that`s what I came up with : 29% lye conc 6% sf 20% coconut 20% palm 5% castor 20% aprikot kernel 35% canola I used 1 oz ppo of white ginger fo & anise fo 50/50 I was doing faux funnel in the round mold with 3 colors: white, white+pink and...
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    What soapy thing have you done today?

    Well, both batches traced faster then I expected and things just went wrong from there. I think Im having a bad soaping week. That faux funnel from soapqueen calling me for a challenge. 2 failed attempts. Running out of colors. I think I should nail it third time. Tomorrow, maybe, hmmm... Now...
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    Canola DOS if ROE and Vitamin E used?

    DeeAnna, do you add it later in your recipe as well?
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    Canola DOS if ROE and Vitamin E used?

    This is an eye opener! I didn`t know that linoleic acid was at fault, and always thought Aprikot Kernel is high in antioxidants, I have a lot of it. Thank you so much for such valuable piece of information, i will have to watch my percentage for this acid now. I dont have EDTA, but it`s going...
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    Canola DOS if ROE and Vitamin E used?

    I want to make some slow tracing soap for swirling right now, and I ran out of olive, all I have on hand for liquid oils : aprikot kernel castor canola Last time I used canola it dos, swore not to use it ever again and had a full bottle of canola sitting since then. Didn`t have a ROE or vit E...
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    What soapy thing have you done today?

    Had a failed attempt at faux funnel pringles can soap last night, I was using a Carnation FO from wellington for the first time. I knew it would speed up the trace, but didn`t expect it to accelerate instantly. Had to shovel it down in two cans and while I was slamming it down to get soap packed...
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    Salt bar as a shampoo bar? Pros and Cons

    Thank you all for your replys, guys, i appreciate! I will give a try to some suggestions that I felt like might will work for me.:-P Obsidian, I tried CO washing, after 2-3 time in a row hair was not getting clean, like a build up from a conditioner, I might look into it some more and try to...
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    Salt bar as a shampoo bar? Pros and Cons

    I`m trying to find alternatives to a commercial shampoo, not buy a different one. Every hairstylist tells you to go buy more stuff of the store shelf, for some reason it rearly works wonders. I`m using a shampoo because I have oily hair, if I had a normal hair I`d try to lean from it. My...
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    Salt bar as a shampoo bar? Pros and Cons

    tealeaves, did you stick with curtain one? what type of hair you have?
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