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Hi I've been struggling to find much information about how the room temperature you are soaping at influences your cp soap. I work at around 100F and my recipe is 30% OO, 30% CO, 30% palm, 10% castor, 6% superfat, 33% lye concentration. My room temperature is super cold (its start of spring here...

I made this for a competition on facebook for christmas soaps and i'm quite proud. The decorations were made from soap dough and its supposed to be a christmas cookie with icing/snow and the decorations on top

Wow thank you for your reply!! 1. my stickblender has a plastic bell and no rust (despite years of use) so i'm guessing its not aluminium 2. i have used coconut oil in almost all of my soaps, always from the same brand. So it definitely might be the source of the smell. In terms of water, I...

I guess its not the soap being rancid since I've never used rancid oils and no colour changes. I actually haven't used any other handmade soaps but my own. I haven't thought of the possibility but seeing as I'm used to the smell of commercially made soap maybe its a scent present in all handmade...

I've played with quite a few different recipes so I can't say what the percentages are. I don't use anything aluminium. The only thing that could possibly have it is my stick blender but i dont have a way to check. i use 33% lye concentration (although I have changed it around between different...

I have been using different molds so i dont think that is the case :( although i have definitely 'stained' my silicone mold with lots of fragrances

Hello so I've make several batches of CP soap but every single one has a weird salty/rancid scent. It is strongest immediately after making and mellows out. It doesn't fully go away because I have a bar from 4 years ago that still has this problem. Strange thing is, its not noticeable from the...

My one was....terrible. I cheaped out and didn't get a stick blender. I used cheap plastic molds and cheap oils. BUT I wanted my soap to be good so I added activated charcoal with tea tree oil thinking that I was going to succeed...the soap never came to trace. It was separating but because of...

So one of the reasons I moved from MP to CP soap is not CP has a much wider range of options when it comes to texture. And one of the things that intrigued me the most was soap dough. So I have tried soap dough before (store bought) and it wonderful - feels slightly like polymer clay. It isn't...

This is a VERY late reply, but I think I have figured it out. For a soap to mix properly it should be in a circular container. After a few experiments, I found that mixing in a rectangular or square container actually doesn't emulsify the oils at the corners. So although it looks emulsified, it...

I used a hot pad but maybe they were heated too high. I guess I need to check that out

Strangely the soap is perfectly fine. I would say they are the best soaps I have made except for the smell. And one of my soaps was unscented plus I love tea tree!

I don'y use any metal. I store my soaps on a plastic tray with plenty of space between each

The recipe I used for the soap I'm talking about had 75% coconut oil, 35% olive oil with a 15% superfat. There were no other additives and it went through gel phase. My other recipe that also had this happen was 30% palm oil, 30% lard, 20% coconut oil, 10% olive oil, 10% castor oil with a...

I have made some soaps recently and in just a few days of curing, they had smelled absolutely rancid. I let them cure for a month now and the scent is less pungent but I can smell it on my skin when I use it. I know for sure that my oils were not rancid because they were bought the day I made...