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Thanks! I may have to do some testing and see what works for my customer base. So far I've gotten good feedback, but that might be because my customers don't know what they are missing.

Bohdi-- The castile will have been curing for 6 weeks by festival time... how much longer would you recommend curing them for before sale? That is my "usual" cure time, but that's also based on 3lb batches, and scale-ups always create the need to change things. I'd rather hold them back for a...

Yes, that is the plan. I have a total of just over 500 soaps of various types. Whatever I don't sell will be great as back-stock so I am not forever doing pre-orders for curing batches. :) I just wish I had some idea how much I was going to sell. It's my first fair or anything of the sort so...

Marilyna--Just saw this! I've done some smaller batches of Castile, but this was a scaleup attempt because I kept running out and I have a festival to do in about a month. I've definitely learned through scaling up my batches! This batch was so big I used a 5 gallon bucket and a...

Update: it was still a tad soft Friday, but it was cut-able. I'll have to clean up the edges some, but I have 78 bars. :D

I checked again today and it seems about the consistency of flan, so I'm thinking I'll so exactly that, Meeplesoap. I'm just glad it seems to be on it's way to soap! :)

So I made a batch of true castile soap. I know WHY I have my quandry, but not sure where to go from here. I used full water, and I poured it at a bare level of trace (and I mean BARE)... mostly because I'd been working with the batch for several HOURS, it was 10pm, and I had to be done for the...

Chicklet-- The above pic is from the first batch. Not too soft, though I have decided that i distinctly DISLIKE the FO I used. I'm very glad I chose it to be a "limited edition" batch! The only issue I have is the weird rings that I posted above (the one in the pic is more eye-shaped than...

Ok... hope this comes out. You'll see the that there are white flecks, but you should also be able to see a ring like area with an ever-so-slightly darker center.

Been a busy week and just got back to this. Thanks for all the info. Yesterday, I went and bought a second lye pitcher. ;) Newbie--Thanks for the info on the rebatch, I'd been wondering how to figure that out. I'll see if I can get a good pic of the rings and post them. If you want to see...

Thanks chicklet. I apparently wasn't taking into account that lye dissolved in water will change the weight of the water (If I read you correctly?) If this is the case why aren't there problems with my first batch? I would think if I should have weight out 30 oz instead of the 19.8 that I...

My Body bar is Soap Queen's Lots of Lather recipe. Castor 4% Coconut 32% Olive 32% Palm 32% For this batch I use 52 oz oils, 19.8 oz water, 7.4 oz lye For my Shaving soap I use Castor 7.4% Coconut 30.0% Olive 40.1% Palm 22.4% For this batch I use 34 oz oils, 12.9 oz water, 4.9 oz lye I...

I've been making soap for about 6-8 months and this is the first time I've really had a screwed up. I was making two batches this weekend, one seems fine, and one is so lye-heavy it crumbled. Backstory: I did two 3lb batches. The first was a body bar sented with BB Passionfruit Rose. The...