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...and pour the lye into the coffee when it's time? I'm going for something like this recipe here: http://soapdelinews.com/2015/06/homemade-coffee-soap-recipe.html It says, however, to add lye to water separately, and add coffee to the oils separately. It all sounds complicated. Is all of...

So I want to try this recipe: http://soapdelinews.com/2015/06/homemade-coffee-soap-recipe.html As you can see, it calls for But I want to use a different fat profile (I've have success with equal parts coconut, olive, and palm), which throws all of the calculations askew. My question is...

So I'm thinking about making a "Hobbit-themed" soap (with hemp oil, tobacco scent, and comfrey leaf - you know, the Halflings' pipe-weed). I'm looking at using comfrey leaf for texture: https://www.brambleberry.com/Comfrey-Leaf-P6443.aspx My only thing is, don't these leaves get...

...or will it react poorly with the newly-poured lye soap? I ask because I might have the perfect soap mold solution staring me in the face, I'm just not sure how well steel would work.

I recently did a multi-colored soap which is looking great. But there was one problem. During the soapmaking process, I kept the fragrance oil in a red plastic cup so it was pre-measured. The fragrance oil turned red. Not sure if it had been red the whole time (someone else poured it), I...

In my latest batch, I used a soap mold (minimal soda ash) and an improvised soap mold (a square cardboard box lined with freezer paper) which resulted in thin bars. The real soap mold bars are mostly good with minimal soda ash, but there's a lot on the thin bars. I looked it up and saw that...

Here's the recipe I'm using: http://i.imgur.com/2unHaOT.png I have some green pigment from Brambleberry I'll be adding. My impression was that I add this to the soap once everything is combined and it's achieved that "pudding" stage before pouring it into the mold, and mix it around. Now I'm...

I have the Brambleberry Coconut Oil. On Soap Calc, there are different options: Coconut Oil, 76 deg Coconut Oil, 92 deg Coconut oil, fractionated Which do I choose to correspond with my coconut oil?

Here's the link: http://i.imgur.com/2unHaOT.png Thanks in advance!

Now a veteran of my first batch, I'm posting in the regular forum. What what. Anyways, I've got a lot of coconut oil to use, so I'm wondering if this will create an acceptable soap:

It's been two weeks since my first batch, so it's obvious that the hardest part about soap making is the waiting. I'm assuming they'll be good to go in another two weeks to make four total. My question: how long do you cure your bars? How do you know when they're ready to use?

I made my first batch of soap this past weekend and everything went really well. I want to thank you all for answering all of my questions so patiently and quickly! I even did a quick question before I made my first recipe and received a reply that very day. It was cool seeing the "trace" soap...

I took the advice of this forum and ran the following soap recipe (from Soap Queen's eBook) through a calculator: 6 oz Coconut oil 6 oz Palm oil 9 oz Olive oil pomace 1 oz Castor oil 7 oz water 3.0 oz lye 1.4 oz fragrance When I ran it through the SoapCalc calculator, I got the following...

I'm checking out my Soap Queen instruction ebook and it says early on to measure water (for lye water) by volume, but then gives the amount of ounces to use. Later on in the eBook it just says to use "x ounces" of water. In some recipes, it gives a range of water to use, in other recipes, no...

So I bought the Brambleberry beginner's cold process kit and saw that the bottle of fragrance says The recipe juts says add X ounces of fragrance to the soap at the right time...nothing about diluting it. Do I just weigh it, pour it in, and never dilute it?

Hi all, I'm new to soapmaking (recently ordered my first soapmaking kit from BrambleBerry.com) and have been going thoroughly through some recipes to make sure I don't make any wrong turns when the time comes to make the stuff. I went through her basic recipe, and wrote down any Q's I had...