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how interesting. I used containers from a natural laundry liquid which didn't seem to have a smell. I've since made another batch from the same recipe and it's fine. Like the Soapcalc Lye option too. Might try that next time.

No dairy. I was a simple recipe from 'lovin' soap' blog - not to hand but a few basic oils, water and Koh. I think it was a lye excess of 8% - low I know. I'm just not sure if it means it hasn't saponified enough or what - it's a chemical smell - but feels fine on the skin. I wonder if there was...

Hi my soap smell nice and mild until wet on the hand when it smells of ammonia to me. I went to a shop and tried a sample of their one and there was a very faint ammonia smell when wet. The soap was cooked for a very long time as it never reached the toffee stage. I didn't use borax or...