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If you put a lot of salt in the water is there any risk that water cann't disolve the lye you put after the salt? What means too much salt in this case?

If for 100% CO is used 100% salt, is it ok for x% CO to use x% salt for any given x?

Even with 60% pomace (30% palm, 10% coconut) and after 4 month of cure - is still slimy.

Can we consider paprika beeing a botanical? If so, we have another example of botanical which is not turning brown in soap.

After 1 month cure, no pork smell even for a 90% lard soap.

So, the soap will be a hard one not only because of salt in brine but also because of sodium lactate.

I mean how much lye is needed to neutralize 1g o this acid. Anyway, is almost imposible for me to know how much lactic acid is in that brine. So, hope that everything will be ok with this soap.

I know that there are some acid in that brine (my tongue told me), but I don't know: - what acid - the ratio acid:water -the SAP of this acid I hope that this acid didn't eat too much lye.

The brine solution was made only of water and salt, no vinegar, but there is some fermentation even with this no vinegar formula, so the brine is not only water+salt, it is acidic.

Yesterday I have made soap using pickles brine instead water. The recipe is: lard=33% pomace oo=56% coconut=7% castor=4% sf=3% 2 teaspoon sugar for 1200g of oils lye/"water"=1/2 Everything was ok, the soap is fine, quite hard after 24h, harder then other batches using the same oil formula (is...

Soap: Coconut=5%, Pomace=10%, Lard=85%, SF=2%, Green clay Shampoo: Coconut 15%, Castor=15%, Pomace=35%, Lard=35%, SF=7%

By the way, which are the benefits of lanolin? A harder or longer lasting soap?

30-40 years ago my grandmother made 100% lard soap and, as I remember, there was enough bubbles...

50% lard + 50% pomace OO - what do you think about this recipe? I want to try it these days...

What if I put some hair in the lye water?! Not human hair - it will be too... canibalistic! Let's say some cat hair, which is very thin. Or some bird feathers. Will it disolve in lye, like silk? If so, will the soap be improved by this ingredient?