Recent content by mbeachysoap

Andrea .. may I ask how you got your bars so white? They are beautiful!!

Well .. 4 weeks it is then .. thank you so much .. love this forum and ya'll for all your help :)

Thank you Marilyna .. is the 4 weeks based on my recipe or just in general?

I always hear "curing time depends on your recipe" .. well how do we know? I have been letting all my soaps cure for 6 weeks, however I have recently started using two harder oils with Olive oil and was wondering if this creates as shorter curing time like 4 weeks? Is there some kind of curing...

I live in South Carolina just a few blocks from the ocean and I have never changed anything with the recipes to compensate for high humidity .. never have had any problems relating to humidity .. now .. my first few batches had problems but that was only to the fact that I was new to it and...

I have an Oster with 250watts .. my other one had less and it didn't work well at all and it also got hot. My Oster was under $20 and it works awesome.

Titanium Dioxide Oil Dispersible Powder .. just had to look it up .. so mixing it with water is out, right? .. I really like the idea of having it pre-mixed .. one more question .. what % of vanillin is considered high to where it won't whiten?

I got it from NG and it is in a powder form and the scent I am using contains vanillan and as we all know anything with vanilla in it turns brown and I want it to stay white. Thanks for the input and I am going to try the mix with a little of the oil from recipe method and add in at trace via...

Received titanium dioxide to add into my CP soap recipe and I am told to "add the titanium dioxide to the oil phase of your formulation" ... so do I add it to the oils before or after I heat them up? Any insight, advice or precautions I should know before I try it?

@judymoody yes I have gotten some great advice and help and I agree about the benefits being worth the trade off .. I love using my homemade soaps and feel the difference in my skin, it is amazing!

Ok based on all of your suggestions I am adjusting my recipe using an "in between oil". As per dagmar88's comment I did not know that using 75% Olive oil required more curing time so adjusting that as well using ranata's oil % guide. Glad I came to this forum. You all are so helpful and I am...

Ok DeeAnna .. thank you for your advice .. the water % I got was from soapcalc and that was already in there. Maybe I'm a little confused. I do appreciate all the help. I have used Crisco and probably will again.

@renata .. Thank you.. I have to order Palm oil on line (and I will) as I cannot find it anywhere .. can you suggest any other oils a little easier to find locally? Im sure Lard will be easy just don't like to list "lard" on my ingredients .. also do you know what water % works best (I do 38%)

@Deeanna .. as far as the palm, lard, tallow .. at what percentage should I add these and can you name more ... please? Also water is at 38% .. what would you suggest? Thank you

cured 3 months now