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I've been seeing a lot of people using dual lye in their soaps. What is the reasoning behind doing this? I'm curious as all get-out.

So I'm stuck on how or what criteria I should look at in naming my recipes. Do you use the FO or EO from your recipe and name it after the scent? Do you look at the oils and their characteristics and name it using that? Or do you go by the colors and name them with something relative to the...

I made my first goat milk a couple days ago and am anxious to make another. I just read about master batching your lye and wondered if it could be done with goat milk. Does the lye chemically change the milk so that it wouldn't sour or curdle? I would love to master batch but not sure if this...

I tried piping some simple designs on my soap today, but not matter how I tried, I couldn't get the soap to pull off the tip. It was thick enough to form well and sit on top of the soap, but it would stick to the tip and not come off. Frustrating to say the least! So any tips/tricks on...

Every recipe I make seems to trace too quickly, no matter what I do. Here's the one that I made today: 35% Coconut Oil 76 degree 30% Olive Oil 20% Castor Oil 15% Lard I tried to keep the stick blending to a minimum so I could keep it thin enough to do swirls, but it still traced too fast for...

Here's the recipe: Olive Oil 1500 gm Coconut Oil, 76 deg. 1167 gm. Castor Oil 500 gm Flax Oil 167 gm Distilled Water 1267 gm Lye...