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The spent beer grain sounds fascinating. So is it dried and ground up into the soap? What are the benefits?

Yes safe from the burst main! We are up quite a hill from the centre so not much flooding danger. And yes have been wading through EU regulations which do seem like quite a mouthful! Any help in that regard certainly appreciated :)

The Fox and I live in Montpelier in Briz. Hoping to make more than I spend but will have to see if that's fanciful thinking!

Oh and Effy "Warm beer on a rainy day" is ALL English beer on ANY English day!

I was basing the milk fat on heavy cream which from a local organic dairy is about 40% fat. I have seen goats milk soap recipes at about 25% total weight of oils. Yes you are correct this is all numbers and I have yet to make a batch but local ingredients are very important to me so I want to...

Ok so a lot of calculations and have come up with a starting point I think. Please let me know if I'm on the right track: 50% Sheep Tallow 25% Milk Fat 15% Hemp Oil 10% Rapeseed Oil This gives me: 41 Hardness 11 Cleansing 44 Condition 11 Bubbles 30 Creamy 70 Iodine 139 INS Ideally cleansing...

Interesting. So looking further at some soap calcs it seems that cleansing and bubbles are both considerably higher with sheep or goat tallow vs. beef. Also that list of oils contains canola which is GM rapeseed but not standard rapeseed (not sure about the acid content differences here). Both...

The rapeseed oil I am talking about isn't like the kind of rapeseed oil I encountered when I used to live in the US. Here this is non-GMO, organically grown and I use the first cold press extra virgin variety in much of my cooking. It's nuttier than extra virgin olive oil and not as 'peppery'...

Hello all, First post here and brand new to soapmaking. I imagine based on what I have read so far that this is likely my next obsession, to go along with sourdough bread making and a few others! I'm trying to read as much as possible without asking questions that have likely been asked and...

Hello all, Just found this forum when googling how to make beard soap! I recently began making my own beard balm and now getting ready to dive into the world of soap making too! Tonnes of questions but I'm going to read through as much as I can before asking ones that have been answered time...