Recent content by Stu

Hi Saranac, Could I ask you one question, do you mix together you thickened HEC and LS while they are both room temp, or while they are both 75C? Many thanks Stu

Hello again, I tried again this morning. I Hydrated my HEC, then once I had it nice and thick and smooth, I added my soap in. The whole mix went instantly from thick to runny. So I think I should have maybe let the HEC cool down before adding the soap? Ill need to make some more soap before I...

Thank you very much for this, I really appreciate it. First thing tomorrow I’m going to try adding my liquid soap to pre fully hydrated HEC, I will of course post back to let you know how I get on. Very best wishes Stu

I should point out that in the recipe Step 10 is written wrong Step 10. Thicken the Soap with Hydroxyethylcellulose at 1% and further dilute the soap stock with up to 150% additional water. Actually what i do is: Mix the HEC into the 150% dilution water, then add that into the soap stock...

Hi thanks for the reply, Im making my liquid Soap using the no paste method in 'Liquid Soap Making' by Jackie Thompson Ive attached my recipe as a PDF I got the HEC on eBay , I can check the company and come back to you

Hi there folks, I too have a problem with HEC making my liquid soap go cloudy. My fragrance free liquid soap is crystal clear. But if I thicken it with 0.8% HEC it stays clear until the soap cools and then it goes cloudy. I’ve been trying to get this to work for 6 weeks, can anyone help me...