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DeeAnna, thank you very much :) I will maybe add a bit extra oil to be on the safe side. Oh alright then I'll just add it at trace. Thank you so much! ^_^

Hello guys :) Since I come up with weird questions in my head, I thought I'd ask for your help on these questions I have. A) Can I pour my oils into the lye water instead of the usual lye water into oils? I just need to know, been wondering for a month. B) For any of you who has experience...

Oh God, when I read 6 months, I think I lost it a little out of fear. At least it is safe to use. I will definitely let it cure longer, time is not a problem, but since I've usually read 4-6 weeks, I thought I'd dry. You explained exactly what happened, it did lose quite a bit of size and the...

Hello once again, I left my first batch of Castile soap cure for 5 weeks after cutting and since it's 1 am here and being my usual very normal self, I thought I'd see what I had done. So I licked (Yes, licked) the soap to see if it would "zap", it didn't but since I worry too much and was...

Hello again :) Since where I live there is no way I'll find any soap colorants, I was thinking what if I use natural food colors? I will make them myself, for example concentrated blackberry paste, carrot juice, spinach juice..They will be concentrated into paste-like consistency, but some...

Hello :) I think it was the mold, but since I've seen large batches put in wooden molds I didn't think it would have been a problem my small molds :/ It could have been the scale, although it is a new one and so far it has always measured correctly and I usually measure things 3-4 times just...

When I bought my first bottle of lye, it was a mix of carbonate soda and caustic soda so of course my 3 attempts at making soap failed. I then received the lye I have now from Greece and the company claimed a 98% purity, which I didn't doubt, but I just thought I'd check it out for myself. So it...

Hello Susie :) To be frank, the lye water was a bit warmer than I've used before but it wasn't too hot, while the oils were at room temperature. It was at an 8% SF so using the Brambleberry calculator, I got 115 grams of Lye and 297 grams of water for 800 grams of OO and 100grams of CO. I...

Hello guys! I made a batch of soap about 2 weeks ago, it was carefully measured out, 100grams of coconut oil and 800 grams of pomace olive oil. I noticed that by the third day it still hadn't hardened inside the mold so I gave it about a week. It's almost 3 weeks later now and it still hasn't...

Hello :) Oh, those buckets look great. I live in Albania though, so I'm 100% sure there's no way for me to find any of those here. I will look into hardware stores though and get a better container and put all the lye bags in there. Thank you for the suggestion :) Have a good day :)

Hi :) After pouring it into the plastic container, I put that container in a plastic bag and then into another plastic container and all that is inside a cardboard box high up in a shelf where there is no humidity or much air flowing activity. I was just worried that it would eat through the...

Hello again :) I finally got the right caustic soda and I made a bit of soap yesterday to test it. Sorry, this will be a bit long, I just want to explain it properly. I am a bit of a safety freak, especially since I have kids and pets around the house, so here is my issue: The caustic soda...

Thanks a lot to all of you :)

Hi :) I tried about 10 different hardware/building materials/hydraulic stores yesterday and none of them had any and no one had any idea where I could get some. Thanks though, I will most probably order from the internet. It is ironic a bit because Albania was one of the largest caustic soda...

Hi, sorry to bother you but I'm having a problem, it won't trace. I went out and bought a stick blender after blending for around 40 minutes with my hand mixer and the poor thing overheated. With the stick blender I went on for about 15 minutes more and the consistency will stay the same. It is...

I will make some soap right now and then I will most definitely let you know in about 4 weeks, after the curing is done. Thanks a lot :) I will be as careful as possible, thank you :)

Hello :) Thanks a lot for answering! The first is caustic soda...at the back this is the labeling on ingredients: Hazardous ingredients: Sodium Hydroxide/Sodium Carbonate...nothing else. I am not 100% certain that it has anything else added but it appears these are the only ingredients. I was...

Hello everyone :) I am quite new to soap making and I have a question about a specific caustic soda brand. I live in Albania and I have been searching for caustic soda for days and only today I found it, at My Dollar store near my house. This is the caustic soda I bought since it is the only...