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I used a different mold than I'm used to, making soap with a friend. I'm not a happy mathematician, that's sure. I used the formula in the 'oil for mold' thread - length times width times height of pour times .40. The mold was 10 x 16 x a 2.5 inch pour. I got 160 ounces. That was WAY too much...

Anybody done it? Been wondering about it.

Grapefruit EO colored with Paprika and Turmeric Experimenting with layers, natural colorants and pencil lines. Coconut, olive, shea, cocoa butter and castor. Not unhappy with the results.

What's your preference? Why?

Lemongrass Coconut-Olive. The embeds were from an unscented batch I made about ten days ago. I didn't gel, and when I went to cut, some of the balls came loose. I CPOPed 48 hours after the pour to try to gel retroactively and see if that helped them to stick. It did, but now the bars are...

Tried my first batch of soap ball embeds, and when I cut the loaf (Coconut-Olive Lemongrass) they wanted to come loose and fall out. :sad: Any suggestions on what I could do differently next time?

My goal is to sell my soap. I realize that some people seem to jump in VERY early, perhaps before they're really ready. So, just wondering: when did you feel ready to sell? Was is a certain number of months or years? Number of batches or recipes? Amount of positive feedback? Was it when you...

The darker one is my rebatched red wine castile. I kept a little aside, the excess I'd poured into a plastic cup, to show the difference between the original and the rebatch. The other is Don's No-Nonsense Business Bar, for my vegetarian father-in-law who refuses to use anything fancy and...

Does rebatching castile affect the long cure time at all? I thought I've read that HP soaps don't need as long, but I wasn't sure if castile is the exception.

Is there any point, or does the cure time take so long that scent would evaporate? Do most people scent their castile or not? Is there a traditional approach?

Used the soap calculator at Maple Springs as usual, superfatted at between 7-9%, and still, two weeks out, my lavender lemongrass charcoal swirl seems to behave as if it's lye- heavy. And weirdly, some pieces seem to be zapping mildly (although I might not have enough experience to know a true...

If I normally use 34.4 oz. of oil in a silicone mold, how would I adjust for a salt bar? What percentage of salt do you recommend?

So, I've tried to prevent gel phase by putting my soap out into the freezing winter; ended up with an imminent partial gel which I corrected with my first attempt at CPOP. Then I tried several CPOP batches, which went fine except that occasionally the silicone mold caused a pocked surface from...

That seems to be what I hear most often. Is that true? Why?

Pringles can mold.

My digital scale broke, so I asked my husband to get me a new one today. He came home with a culinary spring-scale in which the smallest increments are ounces. He doesn't understand why I can't use it, that the difference between .6, .7 and .8 is very significant in making soap, and that trying...

Second batch of beer soaps - Caramel mocaccino Stout soap and citrus clove Hefeweizen. Tried kikajess' mica swirl technique: http://www.soapmakingforum.com/showthread.php?t=40404&highlight=loving+mica I think the Hefeweizen got a slight touch of Alien Brain; I'm still experimenting with CPOP.

I'd like to be able to personalize soaps with a stamp. Is there such a thing as a soap stamp on which the letters can be changed out?

I've read a few different methods, from keeping the oven on for an hour at 170° to preheating it, putting the batch in and immediately turning it off. Most say to leave it in for a long while afterward, like overnight. I know that during gel phase it's very fragile. What I'm wondering is...

...My beautiful pencil line. :sad: It's not even very thick. I might have cut too soon; would that make a difference? How can I prevent this in future batches?