Recent content by saddigilmore

rain is theoretically distilled water, it's just falling through air that is riddled with pollutants from car exhaust, factories, general smog ect. I dunno the PH of rain in a big city, but something tells me it's probably acidic too. I'd say if you took rainwater from distilled water (in a...

I also have that one- def. never looked at a spoon or potato peeler again. it's just so much faster

sounds like the perfect opportunity to try my hand at HP finally....

sorry I worded my first post ambiguously. I meant when pouring my lye into my oils as well. I didn't mean to make it sound like it thickened when pouring the batter into the mold. It thickened immediately when the lye hit the oils too. Fragrance free, but I am using a wire cutter. But those...

thanks for the reply! I just wish I didn't have to make 1kg of ugly soap to learn the lesson AGAIN that temperatures matter :p if those blobs of soap are actually just soap, but very ugly, I guess I have more soap for myself, nobody can see these. at least it won't be wasted. I'm not sure I...

Are these stearic spots? or just pure cocoa butter? I got way too comfortable soaping with lard and liquid oils, I stopped checking my lye water temps... Got sloppy with a 20% cocoa butter recipe, and I finally experienced false trace. Started getting clumpy right as I poured, never got fully...

I think it's important that we get pure stainless guitar strings, not the nickel plated ones! I think :P

what three cutters did you buy,if you don't mind me asking? so i know what NOT to get? :P

I don't even know what to say :0 Thank you so much!! You always have an answer to the questions I have!! It has helped me so much. I really can't thank you enough. Aldi man... I really love this store. It really sounds promising, this plant fat block. I'm on a budget :P It's almost a curse...

Three ingredients.... Palm oil, Canola (rapeseed) oil, and air... . but they don't have any ratio... but something tells me this would make some good soap. How would you all work with this, in regards to a lye calculator? short of contacting the company and asking them their recipe :P

This is what I got: https://www.amazon.de/MOSUO-Epoxidharz-Seifenfarbe-Schimmern-Farbpulver/dp/B07PM5F98H/ Has anyone had any experience with cheap generic micas like this? Does anyone have any suggestion on the best way I should use this? 1:1 still holds, and hope for the best? :P

I'm gonna toss em for sure, I just wanted to fine tune my recipe... a soap w DOS, I just want to make sure that after adding chelators/antioxidants, it will behave like the DOSSY soap did...

here's what my rapeseed experiments look like after one month of curing... most have DOS throughout... some actually turned Fully orange? (3+4 row from bottom). Some concentrated near the stamp only (2nd to last and last row) DOS didn't seem to develop at all on the ones that I added coffee...

I too had my first cases of DOS recently, and it's quite demoralizing :P you ain't alone!

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