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Happy Christmas 🤶

Just wanted to share my soap with you guys would not be able to do it all without your help. Used Eco Soy Wax and it has solved my hardening problem :) THANK YOU

Ok, thank you. Yes beeswax was just as a placement as there is no Soy wax in the Calculator. I'm UK based :) will have a look for golden wax. Thank you will share the results with you all soon.

Thank you for that. The final question I use SL so can I use both? You are so right CB is so expensive but I do love the creaminess of it so might just use max 5% - 8%. ( or will that be too small to add anything into a soap ?) Also which wax do you recommend? I'm looking into an ECO wax? I...

Thank so much for that, I used Beewax but that was before I went Vegan. I agree about the cocoa butter, I have a lot of coconut wax so maybe adding 10% would work? and also Sodium Lactate. I've always had a bit off a problem with hardness most my recipes are between 39 to 41 hard but I really...

Thank you for that. That is very good to know. I don't work that much with Kaolin clay myself but I do put a lot of french clay to my other recipe and normally works fine. Also I'm quite new to Lye concentration :) I think I need to half the clay and reduce cocoa butter but also I cut it 10h...

It crumbled only at the edges while I was cutting, and I had a few cracks on the top but not that many. It's a hard bar :) 55% is not that harsh for me personally I always use high coconut as it a Vegan bar also I use 60/40 rule. But it's a first time with 37% Lye concentration, really would...

Hi All Happy New Year, I've been testing a new recipe for my chamomile soap bar with high lye concentration OF 37% superfast 5% so I took it out after 10h and it crumbled my hearth went boooo. I've added 60g of Kaolin Clay it traced really nicely looked very promising. I wanted to make a...

Hello all, Irish my skin is mixed, mainly normal with an oily forehead. Thank you so much for all the help. I offten add beewax just to harden the bar, had a lot of soft bar over the years as I don’t use any palm oil. Avocado oil was a bit last minute. Dahlia : I never used babasu oil so...

Hello to you all, I've not been here for a long time so feeling super excited to back into soap making. Woop! I'm trying to formulate a nice hard face bar. Did tones of research as we all know there is so much out there. Attached my recipe below. I don't use any animal fats or palm oil managed...

Hello all @Kamahido not yet, but will give it a go once back from Morocco ;)also found this tutorials which looks good and makes much clearer soap base ! Also came a cross this book " Making Transparent Soap by Catherine Failor" if you are just like me starting with transparent soap base...

Thank you both Hot process tutorial looks good will allow me to use up my glycerin ;) @ Carolyn "Are you planning on make m&p yourself and using glycerin as the additive to make it transparent? " I would want to make a transparent m&p base from scratch with my glycerin rather than buying pre...

Hello all soap lovers ! I would like attempt making a gemstone soap for the first time ;). Did fair amount of research and feel quite confident as far I use melt and Pour which is effectively glycerin based ?! should be easy. But I have a lot of glycerin in liquid and would like to use...

Thank you so much for all your advice good new is that my second batch is great smells lush Yupi !! not lye heavy, with the small crack :lol: but so happy

Thanks Kansas I work on the smallest quantities possible - as my first attempt was a complete failure :-) Don't want to waist any more ingredients I've made wooden mold ( assuming that each bar is around 100 gr ) so fits fine 600 gram for testing Made second batch yesterday looks good-...