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Thank you :) I guess I was a bit spaced out when I started working on it this morning.. anyway the next batch I did after that, I made sure that I melted the hard oils. Thanks again...

I'll do that. I hope it turns out okay. Thanks a lot!

I used vco, evoo and palm which are all in liquid form. only the cocoa butter and shea are solid.

Superfat is only 3%. If I rebatch will it be usable? Thank you for replying to me...

There were a lot of tiny bits. Some of them I grated, the shea butter seemed to have melted with a few stirs. I a lot more worried with the cocoa butter. Will they still be absorbed by the soap? If so, will the result be too caustic? :(

Hi! I just made my 4th batch of soap and the first time I used cocoa and shea butter. I did not melt the butters thinking that they will melt after I put in the lye solution. They didn't and I couldn't fish them out because they were included in the lye calc. I went ahead and finished...

LOL that's what i thought when i saw the soap swimming in the pot! i didn't really had the chance to let it cool because it was already pretty firm in the pot, so i just turned off the stove and started scooping them in the mold. i covered it in wax paper to press it down and smoothen it out a...

It was actually pretty thick, i needed a bit of elbow to stir it. it also almost filled the pot i was using for the rebatch, like it somehow absorbed all the water i added. How long do you think this will set and good for cutting? i did not add anymore fragrance as it still has a strong smell...

Thanks! I did the zap thing and it ZAPPED BIG TIME! really, ow! So I went ahead and rebatched it. i couldn't get my hands on the computer as my brother was doing research for school, so i just winged it and drowned the cubed soap in water. will that affect the lather of the finished soap...

lye pockets??? :( Okay, so I cut the soap after about 40hrs in the mold and here's what i got i have white spots all over the batch, and i think they are lye pockets. :( what do i do now? i don't want to throw them away....

Sorry for the confusion :) all of the tea/coconut milk mixture was added a few minutes after stirring in the lye solution. i did not save any for trace. i think its the high temp of the lye that did it (was thinking about it the whole night lol) and kinda cooked the milk when i put it in.

Thank you for the response. You are probably right! I didn't put my lye solution on an ice bath as I did with the first two batches. I checked on it this morning and it looks okay, save a bit of gelling (browned some of the tea leaves i put in) but it smells wonderful! first time i used...

i mixed the lye to the oils, after stirring for a few minutes i mixed in the tea/coconut milk mixture :-)

dian hi, i just started making soaps and just finished my third batch. my recipe consists of the following: Castor oil 60g Coconut oil 350g Soybean oil 250g Palm oil 350g Olive oil 450g Lye 206g Water 555g (divided to green tea & coconut milk 370g and 185g for the lye) 50ml of green tea and...