Recent content by sarasvati

I had a little tube of ointment for canker sore, and that's what I used right away. It seemed to have worked! Thank you all for the further advice!

Hello and thank you so much for additional advice! So, to tell you the conclusion first, I did end up rebatching this soap. I was very torn between rebatching and not rebatching after reading all the tips and comments from experienced soap makers here, but I thought that if I was going to...

@Zany_in_CO, Thank you very much for this tip! Maybe I will try rebatching after all then..., in which case I need to find an easy way to shread the soap because that was the laborious and time-consuming part of this process when I tried it before. Maybe I can cut the bars into smaller pieces...

Thank you so much for all your advice, everyone! I didn't use any micas or clays but used eucalyptus essential oil. I don't like that feeling of being zapped so I think I will wait for several weeks before I try zap-testing and if I do get zapped, I will try rebaching. I have done rebatching...

I was going to make a batch based on this recipe below but I forgot to add castor oil. Because the amount of castor oil that was intended to be addid is small, can I still use this soap as is without any harm, or do I need to rebatch? Thank you very much in advance for your advice!

I haven't tried it myself but somebody once told me that she used avocados in her soap and the soap came out light green. I am sorry, it looks like I had been misinformed. I just googled avocado soap and it looks like avocado alone wouldn't give the soap the light green color that the lady I...

@earlene, thank you very much for the clarification!

@earlene, thank you very much for all the links for different brine soap recipes. I checked all of them. The recipe by the Spruce Crafts was the easiest to understand and made the most sense to me when I plugged all the numbers into the lye calculator. Modern Soapmaking's Citrus Breeze Brine...

Thank you, @amd for chiming in! I think I it makes sense and I understand it :)

Thank you, @Carly B! I will try it and see how it comes out. One more question. Can you use any recipe and add salt (20 to 20% of the total water weight) to make brine soap? Or does the recipe need to have a high percentage of coconut oil? It seems like a lot of brine soap recipes are that way...

Thank you for your reply and clarifying the superfat percentage, @Carly B! I based my calculation of the salt amount on what @amd suggested in this thread: Soleselfie/ brine soap question However, maybe I understood it wrong?

@Carly B, thank you very much for your reply! Wow, 20% superfat! OK. I thought I was calculating the salt amount correctly but maybe I am wrong... This is what I did: 216.59g (water) - 108.3g (lye) = 108.29g 20% of 108.29g is about 22g 25% of 108.29g is about 27g I read somewhere that for...

I have made salt bars but never made brine soap before and am excited to try it for the first time. Will this recipe work? What would you do to get a better Longevity value without using palm oil? Your feedback will be very much appreciated!

Thank you, @Zany_in_CO and @DeeAnna! I think I will try ground pumice or coffee.

Thank you, @earlene for the Borax idea and the link to the recipe! I will check it out!