Recent content by Jor224

All of my soap were sold after 1-2 week curing. I kept one for bath, and it last for 1 month now. No DOS happened so far.

I've been wondering on the same question as well and I found this thread. Nice input. Meanwhile in my experiment, I currently settled at soap with linoleic around 20-30%, and lauric and myristic combined does not reach 10%. I market my soap soap sensitive skin, so I'm looking for formula that...

Thank you. I'll stick on differentiating my product based on the aroma and the soap cleansing power.

"Furthermore, there are no guarantees any "healing properties" will survive in soap due to exposure to NaOH during saponification and also the high pH of soap even after it is made. " does this apply to pine tar also?

Hi, I'm looking to make pine based soap to treat eczema. In my country Indonesia, pine tar is rare and expensive while pine essential oil is plenty and cheap, often used as ingredient to floor cleaner. I read that pine essential oil also has skin healing property, just as the pine tar, however I...

Hi, update. This time I'm using EVOO. it won't thicken, instead when I added salt, it quickly formed paste and separated with soap water. See picture for detail. I heated them on stove without boiling them. They were mixed, but would not thickened. So far my salt has reached 20 grams for 770...

So I want to give update on my experiments. It works after three times trying. First and second try was with pomace and evoo, the method remains the same except for replacing immersion blender with whisk, and I waited around 1-2 hours everytime I add salt. It doesn't work. The third time worked...

Hi Jen, looking great! Is it watery or thickened? Is the bottle normal pump of foam pump?

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Thanks for the responses, I'll continue from this thread for same topic. The salt usage rules has many references, one say 50% oleic and above, other says as long as no coconut is fine. @Zany_in_CO criteria seems to be another different category. For now I'll follow yours. I'll stick to whisk...

My water TDS score is 27mg/liter. Is that recommended for soap making, all the way to thickening with salt?

Hi, for those who are familiar with me, yes it's thickening issue again. Quick note on what I've done so far: 1. soap paste, 70% extra virgin olive and 30% coco. 2. 40% lye solution. 3. 1% superfat. 4. Let the soap paste sit for 2 days, passed zap test. 5. Dilute them in warm water, around...

Yes, 0.5% is what I added each time. If my liquid is 1000gr, I added 5 grams of salt, stirred, and wait around few minutes, sometimes overnight. So by your suggestion, I should start with 1-2 grams of salt for 1000gr liquid soap? How about the stirring part, should I avoid making foam while...

In all my trials to thicken soap, I failed many times. 1. My soap paste was dominated by olive/pomace olive, with oleic score around 45-50%. 2. I'm using distilled water. 3. My soap paste was sitting for around 1 day, passed zap test. 4. I added my salt little by little, around 0.5% total liquid...

Hi all, So I tried making liquid soap using extra virgin olive oil by BORGES, this is my first time using this and I expected brown-amber coloured paste. Instead I got green paste like the picture. Does extra virgin olive oil always give this result? The videos of castile soap online always...