Recent content by Menny

Update. The soap turn out quite crunchy, made of lots of crumbs... some small some big but crunbs. Not look like a soap at all :mad:. Anyways, just did another batch recipe attached. I raised the water percentage to 35% of oils. I dropped the Musk FO to 1.5 % and poured in a very light trace...

Yes thats what I'm gonna do. What is the percent of FO that you use for an X grams of oils? Maybe I used more then I should? I used 4% of the weight of the oils.

True! That just happend here in my case. As it became hot and a bit Jelly I just tighten it with my finger ( wrap with glove of course) . Hope it'll process well in the next hours :)

Yes It is, a big supplier in my country. Is there any other way to give a good smell to soap without fragrance? I'de be glad to know. As far as I've tried, an organic Cinnamon gives a gentle to soap. I was just thinking about a possible solution, let me know what you think. Say I pour the oils...

Thank you all. Ok so next time no sugar. Ok, I just ran it at calculator so next time 37 % liquid. That just what I did but....in 5 seconds it became as thick as I've never expect it to become :mad: So, what should I do next time? When should I add the fragrance? It definitely is an...

Hi everyone, It's just happend to me 5 minutes ago and I need your help! The foto of the recipe attached. In short, I mixed the oils with lye water ( in this case I used beer as water, with half tsp salt and half tsp sugar ) and as light trace arrived I add musk fragrance oil in the amount of 4...

Wow. Very interesting indeed. I'm going to dig in it :D

I got you. Is there any particular reason to swap them? any benefits? You're right. Last night I used it for 20 minutes but the oil won't trace... Decided to use the stick blender, it brought it to trace in less then 1 minute... And I wanted to ask you about the sugar adding amount. Sugar will...

Thank you Saltefig :) Is it the heat or only the light of the sun that might lead to rancidity ? Usually I let them cure in a shady place, but in that particular case I wanted to get rid of as much water as I could so I thougt it'll be a good idea to let it warm a bit by the sun.

Hi Dean, the length of the SB is 20 cm, 2 AA batteries. I've attached a foto below. Also attached the silicone mold that I used. Today I did another small batch same size with full sea water, and 1/3 tsp of turmeric added at trace. It becames much more orange then I thought it would but I like...

Thanks Dawni :) , well yesterday I bought a small stick blender and made the smallest batch I've ever done. 70 g of oils :D . I'll attach fotos as soon as I'll be back home.

Cut it today and set it down for cure. Thank you all :) And hey, as far as I'm a new beginner in soap making, I'de love to do as much as aoaps as I can for experimenting and learning and I was wondering what size of batches were you doing as a beginners? You see the smallest batch I did was...

I'm quite excited to inform you all that the soap seems like going in the right direction! Last night I listen to amd suggestion and put in in the warm (turned off) oven till morning. Wake up early to check it I found out it became much harder then it was. Took it out and let it sunbathe for the...

Dean, as allways, your tips are a gold mine for me! Thank you! By the way, is there a recommended amount of palm oil to use in CP soaping? Thanks dibbles :thumbs:

Dean, what was the amount of water you used for that 80% AO? or, what makes it to be rock hard the day after? I generally want to learn how to harden the soap so it could be of use for long time.