Recent content by Honeychiles

Thank you everyone! Part of my thinking for using RBO is that it's my normal, every day cooking oil whereas I have to buy plain olive oil just for soap making. I might hold off adding the ROE to the bottle! It took me awhile to get around to trying the new recipes because I was unwell. I...

Thank you for the fantastic advice KiwiMoose and AliOop ☺️ I have been brave and bought Shea butter and ROE. I was thinking of reducing the olive oil to 40% and then use the Shea at 10% Do you think that'll be a bit more balanced? PS, I learnt my lesson from my mammoth first batch and will use...

Hi all ☺️ I'm a soaping newbie and would really appreciate some more experienced eyes looking over a recipe I'm considering trying. I've been toying with this for weeks and after running approximately 10 billion soap recipe permutations through the soap calculator, my brain is feeling fried...

Hi KiwiMoose. I'm in Christchurch so a bit further south. Thank you for picking up my typo earlier- I should have written 80% olive oil + 20% coconut. I had a superfat of 5% I did read a bit about Zany's Castile recipe but found it a bit intimidating for some reason. Not quite sure why! I will...

Hi Tiffany, I'm a newbie too ☺️ I've made one batch and found the prospect a lot more daunting than the actual soap making! I do recommend that you make a small batch (See my thread on this topic 🤣)

Thank you for your responses! Iluminameluna and Marsi, I really appreciate the time you've put into your messages. My recipe was: 1000g olive oil 250g coconut oil 450mL water 172g caustic soda I made my first lot of soap six weeks ago. I tried it and was a bit disappointed with the lather...

Hello, It's great to have found (and joined) this forum! I am a very, very green hobbyist based in New Zealand. I've made exactly one batch of cold pressed soap. Unfortunately I didn't find SMF until after I made the batch or else I'd have likely not made quite as many errors 🤣 Through sheer...