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Will do! Thanks very much everyone for all your kind help.

dixie- Sorry, I can't post photos. Recipe is listed above. I heated the oils and beeswax. I added the lye to the water and let it cool to around 100 degrees, once the oils were around that same temperature I mixed them with a stick blender. It thickened almost instantly so I probably only...

14 oz water 5 oz lye 6 oz beeswax 4 oz coconut oil 2 oz palm oil 28 oz olive oil I don't have a way to post a photo, but this is how it looks when the bars are cut. (photo borrowed from lovinsoap.com) There are two small spots on the outside, each about the size of a pencil eraser, that look...

Hi all! I'm a new soapmaker and tried my hand at a beeswax recipe and ran into a little trouble. The batch of soap is sitting at about 24 hours. It set up but when I cut it I can see that the lye hasn't all saponafied. There are a few small pots of straight up crystals, and you can see swirls...

I got the recipe from an old issue of Mother Earth news so I did not think it would need to be checked. If you follow the link that Newbie left above, it takes you to a discussion on high water recipes that people use for castille soaps with great success. Also as Newbie suggested, I was able...

The 35 was not a typo, that was what the recipe called for. I thought it seemed like far too much water also. Thank you for all the shared resources. I'll let you know how it works out.

I attempted my first batch of soap using rendered lard yesterday and today it has clearly not set right. The recipe I used was this one... 25 ounces lard 9 ounces olive oil 4.41 ounces lye 35 ounces room-temperature water Cypress Oil Cedar Oil My soap has I believe separated...