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  1. GraceDarlingSoaps

    Transparent Soap Not Strained

    Made my second batch of transparent soap yesterday but right at the end after I had skimmed off the foam on the surface,I poured without straining, thinking that the tiny bit of foam inside would not matter! Here are the photos, some bars clear, some spotty and some that I can’t pretend are not...
  2. GraceDarlingSoaps

    Transparent Soap small quantity recipe

    Hi, It’s Janella from GraceDarlingSoaps. I finally feel ready to start with transparent soaps and have bought Catherine Failor’s book. However I want to start with a small quantity eg 1 pound of oils, and I understand that one can’t just scale down the recipes in the book. Is anyone willing to...
  3. GraceDarlingSoaps

    Pine Essential Oil Combinations

    Dear Fellow Soapers, It's GraceDarling Soaps from Cape Town, South Africa back after a long break. I ordered Pine EO, thinking it would smell like a pine forest but it smells like antiseptic toilet cleaner. Does anyone have any suggestions what other EO I could combine with it to improve the...
  4. GraceDarlingSoaps

    Microwave distilling

    Has anyone tried the microwave EO distiller that was developed at Oregon State University. The web page is http://oilextech.com/ I hate throwing away piles of garden cuttings eg lavender, bay leaf and rosemary that I could use to make EO's but I don't want to set up a proper still. This...
  5. GraceDarlingSoaps

    Oven rebatch directly into mold?

    Dear fellow soapers, As a newbie I have had to rebatch a few times and find that as I scoop the soap into the mold it starts drying out on the surface and ends up with an ugly looking surface. I wondered if anyone has rebatched in the oven directly in a silicon mold i.e. There would be no need...
  6. GraceDarlingSoaps

    Adding at trace or to oils?

    Dear Fellow Soapers, I would like to know whether it makes a different to the saponification process if additives ( EO's; FO's; Colourants; Other additives such as purée carrots etc.) are added to the oils before the lye, compared to adding these items at trace. It seems to me that if these are...
  7. GraceDarlingSoaps

    Yoghurt soap help request

    Dear fellow soapers, I have made yoghurt soap before very successfully by freezing it in ice cubes with the water and using this to dissolve the lye. However, I would like to try adding the yoghurt to my oils before adding the lye, as I have read on this forum, I think this will be easier than...
  8. GraceDarlingSoaps

    Melting Oils with Lye Solution Help!

    Dear Fellow Soapers, I decided to try and melt my solid oils with the warm lye solution for the first time today. My solid oils consisted of 43% Palm, 20% Coconut and 6% Shea butter. The solid oils did not all melt this way and the mixture became quite cool with lumps of solid oils, I suspect...
  9. GraceDarlingSoaps

    Buchu EO fixative

    Hi fellow soapers, We have an EO from South Africa called Buchu. A family member used to farm this and told me it was used in the perfume industry as a scent fixative. I have been using this recently in my CP soaps in very small amounts eg 5 to 10 drops ppo and my scents are definitely fading...
  10. GraceDarlingSoaps

    Grandmother's Soap Recipe

    Dear Fellow Soapers, I am new to this forum, I am from Cape Town in South Africa, and thought I would share my Grandmother's soap recipe with you. She was born in the late 1800's and I have named my soapmaking after her. I assume what she calls Resin is Pine Resin? Your comments would be...
  11. GraceDarlingSoaps

    Hello from South Africa

    Dear fellow soapers, I am from beautiful Cape Town in South Africa and started CP soapmaking as a hobby about 1 year ago and would like to introduce myself to this forum. My soapmaking is in honor of my grandmother who was born in the 1800's. I will be posting her original soap recipe on the CP...
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