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  1. TeaLeavesandTweed

    How on Earth is this product pH 5.5?

    Sorry about the confusion with the ingredients lists. Complicating matters is that Korea has different labeling rules to the US and ingredients that make up below a certain percent of a product can be listed in any order. So the order of ingredients does not necessarily mean concentration. The...
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    How on Earth is this product pH 5.5?

    So I've been getting into Asian skin care, and one of the things that they stress is using a low-pH cleanser as your second cleansing step. Well, one of the most famous high-end products is a solid cleansing stick with the following ingredients: "Glycerol, Water, Orange Peel Oil, Lime Peel...
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    Fragrance Buddy FO test

    5% is what I assumed, but I didn't want to be disappointed if you increased the FO percentage to get that strong scent. Thanks for congratulations! I've made soaps for two different plays now: a honey soap for Winnie the Pooh and a "Shipwreck Soap" with sea salt, green clay, kelp, and...
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    Fragrance Buddy FO test

    Did you actually use 18% FO in your soap? I've just been cast in a production of Enchanted April and I think my play-themed soap probably has to be wisteria-scented. What about seizing/ricing/acceleration? Does it soap well?
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    Can Soap Mold?

    Thanks. This really helps. I didn't taste the fluff because I thought it might be mold, but everything else was exactly as you described. I honestly felt better as soon as you posted your first response because if DeaAnna is telling me not to worry, well, she knows her stuff. Thanks everyone...
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    Can Soap Mold?

    The thing is, this was fluffy-fuzzy, not mineral-y like soda ash. Is there such a thing as fluffy soda ash? This looked for all the world like the fuzzy patches of mold that grow on bread. But you're right, there's not much in or on the soap that mold likes to eat, unless I've discovered a rare...
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    Tattoo soap? Can someone help?

    I have two tattoos, so I've been through aftercare procedures twice. This is a combination of my experience and research on aftercare for tattoos. First of all, many tattoo artists specifically recommend against using traditional, lye-based soaps on fresh tattoos. Messing with the pH of healing...
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    Can Soap Mold?

    I should have gotten a picture of this, but I didn't think about it. About 2 months ago, I made a Winnie-the-Pooh themed soap for a play I'm in. It's 80% lard, 20% coconut oil, 5% superfat, used distilled aloe vera as the liquid, soaped with full water, 0.5oz NG Honey Bunny FO ppo, and added...
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    Lard Smell

    I made a lard/coconut soap for my first batch and it smelled pretty piggy to begin with. The smell faded a lot during the cure.
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    Dove or "soapy" FO?

    I just bought Lavanila's lavender-vanilla deodorant and am wearing it today. I think it smells a bit like Dove as well. I hadn't quite placed the scent until you asked about Dove. I don't know how you'd dupe that, though. Lavender + vanilla would probably be a start. Also, a review I just read...
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    Synthetic fragrance oil

    TeresaT, can you link to the page on the BB website where they have sniffy samples? I've been trying to find them and can't.
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    Very Sad Today :-( Rant

    Carolyn, I googled around and found that the California Dental Associate has a section of their website where you can search for low-cost dental clinics near your city. I know in my area, dental care for low-income people has been vastly improved since a couple of high-profile cases of kids...
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    Advice for superfatting?

    If you are making CP soap, you would calculate a lye discount, and the superfat would be whatever didn't saponify. You don't get to choose which oils those are. So you just weigh your oils, calculate how much lye you need to saponify all of it, and then subtract however much you want to...
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    Latex Allergies and oils

    I'm mostly wondering why you need such hard scientific data? Medical research is tough because it's not ethical to purposely expose someone with a known allergy to something expected to cause a cross-reaction. So it would be pretty much impossible to carry out an experiment to determine the...
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    felting?

    Oh, I know, but I thought I'd clarify a little. It just happened to come up twice: once because it was what I'd done that day, and the other time because I recommended ugly/unscented soaps as sacrificial learning soaps for felting since if you get too excited you can rub through a fair amount of...
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