Recent content by Kathylen

I do know that using a lot of coconut oil can cause skin irritation and dryness. Like never over 30% so I used only 16 oz of coconut oil, 34 oz olive oil with other oils and superfatted at 5%. I still felt something went wrong here. This was an 8 lb batch at 5% superfat and still caused skin...

I have a question about superfatting an 8 lb batch. I’m still learning. I made a nice batch using olive, coconut oil and crisco. The soap came out lovely and got very hard at the end of the 6 weeks however, I started to use it and it made my skin itch. Not sure if it was because I bath too much...