Recent content by Xaos

Thanks guys! But I'm looking at doing up a special Christmas scent for my soaps, but I want to get the mix just right before doing up a sizable batch of it for friends and family. The work-thing is a good idea! Our staff bathrooms are always running low on soap.

I have used a soap calculator, but didn't for this batch. Since my measuring instruments aren't the best, I guess everything was kinda, off... I didn't know it was a weight thing, thank you!

So mixing the lye solution and oils together, it just didn't seem to be reaching trace. I was worried it was going to burn out the engine of my stick blender. So I added the fragrance oil and dye before it reached trace as the rose oil speeds up trace. After a little more mixing, parts of the...

Bother... I'd posted a long reply with the full recipe and what happened when it started going wrong. But I took too long and got logged out. I'll post them separately. 75ml white tea 30mg lye 100ml vegetable oil (mix of canola and soy) 50ml olive oil 50ml peanut oil 8ml rose fragrance oil 8ml...

Oh cool, thanks for the suggestion!

Could this happen if there was too little lye? This was CP and I have yet to attempt HP (got to get my mitts on a crockpot) Wish me luck!

I don't know what went wrong. It looks like parts have soaponified while others haven't. There's liquid still oozing from some spots. I used olive, peanut, soy and canola oil, the same recipe that's worked fine before. Any ideas?

Howdy, I'm a newbie soap maker and am super keen on meeting others and learning to make better soaps. One of my biggest problems if, what do I do with all my soap? There's too much for just my home, but I feel bad pawning it off on friends and family and it's certainly not good enough to sell...