Recent content by Mindy07

rebatching problem well, i looked at all the suggestions on rebatching and tried one of the methods last night with the lye heavy soap. today it has the consistency of butter. I used the oven method where you shred your soap and add milk and put it on a very low temp. in the oven,then...

rebatching my own soap? I accidently inverted my own recipe for CP and came up with a 2% superfat. (I put palm oil instead of palm kernal oil and vice versa) Is there a way I can rebatch this soap and add some more fat somewhere, so that I don't have to throw everything out? it smells so good...

thank you! RTCP that is what I have been doing: Room temp. cold process. except I heat my olive oil for 30-60 sec. in the microwave to speed up trace a little. it really works. thank you for telling me about the nix on cold water process. its my mom's friend/not my mom--she is the go-between...

wait time for cutting soap one more thing...depending on your additives you might need to wait longer or less time. Like when I use oatmeal, I have to cut it much sooner than 24 hours because it will be crumbly if I wait too long and the soap will look ugly.

cutting soap I was told that wait time depends on the climate where you live. I live in Florida and it is very humid this time of year--last month we had a drought so the weather was much drier. The soap person who taught me the basics told me that I should wait at least 24 hours a nd that I...

I love making soap this way. A friend of my mom in another state told her that I am spending too much money and that there is a "cold water method". I looked all over the internet and could find nothing. She has a shop and her customers would ask her if she had lye in her soap and she would tell...

soap/lye calculator I am very new to CP soapmaking, and LOVE it. I found a great lye calculator on Magestic Mountain Sage http://www.thesage.com/calcs/lyecalcs/lyecalc2.phpI guess they refer to the percentage of lye to your fats as superfat. If you have too much lye then I guess it would stand...