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I tried removing them sooner = To soft and not good. removing the lip balms from tray day after= hard and much better edge. just small corrections here and there. most of (50) them looked good already. heat gun: inconsistency, will melt down the tube, make more mess than good. I think that the...

Hi! I make my own lip balms in tubes. And I use those lip balm trays for 50 tubes. after pouring the lip balm mixture in the tubes, then scrape of the overflowing mixture and pulling the tubes out from the trays, I always get ugly edges. Not smooth and good looking edges. How do I get a nice top...

Hi all! I'm looking for lip balm display box in craft paper(natural recycled paper) for 12 tubes. Its hard to find. Somewhere from UK or Europe. Does anyone know where to find it? I would like to order a small quantities and then more. /Kind regards

Hi all, I'm about to make some liquid soaps and after all research I've noticed that castile soap is used for many different products as a base. Now I'm not sure if I should make castille soap from scratch with KOH or make some castile soap bars with potassium carbonate(lye) and then add water...

Hi, 1: I made candles with organic beeswax but then realized that the wicks aren't organic. But I cant find any organic wicks that are suitable for beeswax candles. Isn't there any? 2: Is organic beeswax the only organic wax for candle making. Or wax in general? Doesn't the process that makes...

It looks like it should :) I have diluted and its looking good. now I just wait. I added 50% water and now 200g more. I also brake up the lumps with my hands, and gloves of course. I think It will turn out nicely.

I found a list here https://www.nhrorganicoils.com/uploads/Allegens%20essential%20oils.pdf , and it contains allot of info. I think I have to do this because all soaps in Sweden contains the info. The most common allergens are linalool,geraniol, limonene,citral and some few more. and I always...

In my soaps i use 3% when i use single essential oil and 2% when i have blends. That is the recommended usage of essential oils in soaps(bars) according to CPNP, or the allowed limit.. It doesn't say anything about the allergens in my safety assessment so maybe its under the limit but I'm not...

Hi all. I'm about to make some labels for my soaps, and would need to present the allergens present in the soap from the essential oils, like geraniol, linalool, limonene, citral etc. Is there any list of what all essential oil contain? It was a little bit harder to find that i thought. Cant...

Today the soap looks like it should i think. A thicker paste, Vaseline seetrough. Pretty hard but still able to mix with spatula. . I added 50% water, and I'm bringing some heat with crocpot. and now i wait. I hope this turns out fine. I will add a little bit of water after it melts a bit. I did...

Ok, so I read and did everything as planed. I just now noticed something. (see picture) soapcalc: 380 water summerbee: 622 water I used summerbee and did my soap, tracing took forever and still i don't think its how its should be. It's also a little difference in the KOH amount. So my question...

I'm using olive,coconut,castor,safflower,avocado and almond oil. I will now try the cold process, I think I got it. I just didn't get some things: I add lye(hot) to coconut, then add soft oils after it melts, then zap test after 10-15 min(and dilute), should I wait longer to get a more clear...

Thank you, tried to search in forum didn't find!

Hi all, I think i searched everywhere. I cant find the amount of water to add to the KOH when making liquid soap in %. When i use soapcalc for calculating i use standard 38% water of oils. Do I use more or less water in recipe? And when diluting I read somewhere to use 60% water of finished...

I use palm oil, coconut, olive,sunflower, canola, cocoa butter, shea butter and castor oil. the hard oils make about 60-65 % of the total oils. I live in Sweden and it is maximum of 5-10C these days. I've noticed under couple of years that when I melt oils and let them sit it takes long time for...

Hi all! I wanted to share something that i made couple of days ago. I melted 4+4 kg of oils (8 oils,standard recipe of mine) Then made soap with the first 4 kg. Also made 2 batches of lye to each batch of oils. so 1 batch of oils and lye was left to the next day, (next day)I was a little...

Thats the problem I dont have any suggestions:) except for making the exakt recipe and time and everything 100% the same every time, that should work I think.

So no mater what I have to try the zap, every time I make a batch of soap of the rest of my soap carrier? haha

Susie can I do it without the zap test? What is it I'm looking for at the zap test, the pH level? so I could also just measure it ?

here we go again :) Sorry I was in a hurry ok here it is coconut: 300g olive 300g castor 150g sunflower 100g sheabutter 50g apricot kernel oil 50g sweet almond oil 50g. I didn't zap because it was on high temperature a long time and I assumed it was finished.. I used soapmaker 3 for...