Recent content by Kerrie28

Hi all haven’t been on here in a while however I need your opinions, help, advice. I’ve made liquid soap twice. First batch came out fantastic. Followed a copy recipe of DR BONNERS. Second batch was very cloudy and after hours trying to fix it I decided to give up. Poured it in a tub put the...

Thank you for your feedback I will definitely keep this in mind in the future. Much appreciated

Thanks for your feedback. I like to find out what the method behind things, it’s so easy now to just rely on technology and not use your brain.

Yes I’ve just realised that. Lol. Thank you for responding though. I’m just happy my math was correct thought I was going crazy.

Thank you. That is probably what I did wrong. 😁 I’m going to go and do it again. I figured it out. I didn’t change from water as a % of weight of oils to lye concentration. Silly mistakes. Thank you for responding fresh eyes on something helps you see your mistakes. 😀

Hi I’ve recently started to have an in-depth look into lye and water (liquid) calculations. I always use an online calculator like soapcalc but really wanted to know all the ins and outs. So here is my calculation based on 1000g Olive Oil example. 1000 x 0.1353 SAP for Olive Oil = 135.3 lye...

Thank you all so much for the information. My little tiny wooden cutter that my sister bought me as a gift broke yesterday gggrrrr. I had a fun time this morning cutting with a cheese slicer :shakinghead:. Im thinking I might go with the single slicer. As much as I would love a multi slicer im...

Hello fellow soapmakers I want to order a new soap cutter. I’ve looked at the multi cutters which look great. I just want to be sure about the wire distance.The website has given me multiple choices so now I’m in a world of confusion. It will be posted from overseas so I really don’t want to...

Hi Sorry just read your question. Yes I mashed the avocado in with the oils before adding the lye

Hi first time I have posted and hope this is the correct spot. I made this yesterday. Avocado & Activated Charcoal