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Thank you! I want to avoid it for the future. So I might need to follow steps from videos more closely because it seems so dependent on a recipe.

I had it backwards! This should have gone into the freezer right away then.

That’s onerous, nasty garbage! HMUA

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Thanks so much for all the feedback and help in my other thread! As a process learner, it was helpful to walk through the steps to figure things out. There are a few things that happened that I’d love help with for future batches. This soap is 100% coconut oil with no super fat, intended for...

That’s what I did $5 for a stick blender is t bad. I just got 1 mixing vessel when I should have had 2.

Thank you! I had things backwards when it came to containers. I knew I didn't want to use my glass mixing bowl for the lye, so I used the stainless steel pot I got for melting oils instead. But it worked out well once I found the plastic food grade bucket. The only problem was that the batch...

Ok thanks! My batch will look tiny in the food grade bucket I have but it should do great ! Thanks! The bit about the code was very helpful. I’ll save the bucket I have for future lye solution mixing bigger batches but it had the code 2 so it was perfect—containers are not the problem any...

Ah ok, so rule applies even in liquid form. Can I use a glass mixing bowl to hold the melted oil that the lye solution will go into? Rqther, can Qi reuse it for other purposes after using it to mix soap? I’m thinking yes, since it will be soap but that some may say no just in case?

I know there’s a must: lye into soap and never the other way around. but is it ok to pour the melted oils into the lye/water solution? Usually videos show the other way, but so think that’s just because of how the oils had to be melted in a big pot. My biggest container for mixing lye and water...

I'm not sure a poodle/bichon mix (I think that's what a poochon is?) qualifies, but there's a breed of dog whose hair is meant for yarn making. So not so weird, just unfamiliar.

Thank you! I see gloves on people unmolding so I planned to do the same. I’m open to trying a recipe that has honey, goats milk and oats and would love recommendations I know I would have to run it through a calculator regardless because my mold holds 42 ounces so I can’t go any bigger than...

Thanks! I’ll prep a space in the freezer. Does it stay in until it’s time to unmold? Maybe I’ll start at 1 1/2 tsp for the oats and see. I’m hoping starting with ice cubes and going super slow will help prefent the color change.

My first try—hasn’t happened yet—will be a 100% coconut oil soap for laundry purposes (we need it badly). My second will be goats milk, oat and honey soap. I found this recipe and it seems to be very straightforward so the only change I might make is to freeze the milk to help keep things...