Thanks guys! I'm just now about to start up the batch I was going to do yesterday...wanted to research and little more on what I was using. I'm am super new to cold process so as much help or advice I can get would be awesome.
Awesome thank you! I'll definitely look at SoapCalc. I've been using Saponicalc....but they don't have as wide of a variety that I'd like for oils and butters.
yes about 33% is what I was going to go for.
IrishLass described exactly how I got tyne numbers I got. Once I stirred the solution until all lye was dissolved, there was some evaporation. Which I'm guessing it's how I got 697g. The total weight not including weight of container was...
Yes I tared my scale before adding the lye. Thank you so much I'm super happy you replied. I was getting a little nervous as that was going to be the last of my lye for a week or two. Lol I actually was going off of what you wrote in a post a while back on master batching lye. So I would have...
I was trying to create a 50/50 master batch of lye solution and well I came up short on lye. I had not weighed the lye separately soooo it's already mixed together....I know it was dumb of me not to double check my weights but I really thought I had a lot more left in the lye container. Here are...