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Thanks a lot! So do you mean adding both sodium lactate and sugar, or either one of them? Do I add them to the lye solution, or dissolve in the water before adding NaOH? And sorry I am new here, what does ppo mean? :)

Thanks a lot!! How much stearic acid did you use to this batch?

Hi all, may I know at what temperature do you add in the lye solution to the oil when making CP soap? I have made 5-6 batches CP soap so far. However, the first few batches have failed as they accelerate too quick / rice up due to the temperature or fragrance oil I used. My first successful...

I added the stearic acid into my recent batch of CP bar soap and it gives good amount of lather. I wonder if I can add stearic acid to my LS as well? My LS soap alway has a problem that not foaming very well. Has anyone tried adding stearic acid to LS and how does that turn out? Thanks.

Hello guys, recently, I made a batch of CP with below recipe: Total oil weight ~600 g (yield 9xxg soap) super fat 10% Rice bran oil 50% Olive oil 50% fragrance 50g water 228ml NaOH 80 g I pour them into silicone mould and unmould it after 1 week and it hardened a bit. Now another 1.5 week has...

Hi DeeAnna, thanks for your reply. May be the word "failure" isn't accurate, and for separation, I am referring to the end product. So normally my successful LS is a bottle of brown/amber liquid, I am usually able to thicken it with FO or salt solution when it's high in oleic acid. But now my...

I see! Thanks a lot, I thought using water discount in liquid soap would reduce time to bring it to trace. I am gonna try it again today and let everyone knows how it goes.

Then I cooled the paste, drained away the oil and rinse the hardened paste before diluting. But it didn't help. When I pour in hot water for dilution it turned to milky, which is a telltale sign of separated layered end product from my experience. Can someone please tell me what's wrong with...

Hi all, my recipe is as follow: 20% olive oil 20% rice bran oil 60% coconut oil 0% super fat KOH : water is 1:1 (81.64 gram each), incorporate when oil is 69C and lye is 70C (sorry we use metric in Australia) I use soapcalc to generate the recipe. Last time I made liquid soap with more than 20C...