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I poured 5 loaves of soap on Saturday. I was hoping to get a piping set that day for my birthday (also Saturday) but, I didn't so, I had to wait and order my own. It is now Wednesday and I have a piping set but, the bases are well on their way to curing. I have not yet unmolded them (let alone...

I recently took a programming class and for my final project, I am creating a new soap calculator. **Disclaimers** It is NOT FINISHED and several things don't work right now but, if you calculate your recipe by weight (not percentage) it SHOULD be right but, please run your recipe through...

:bunny: In the US, we often measure our batch size in pounds and then oils in either ounces or grams. I was wondering if those of you in other countries (or even here is the US) ever have any use of kilograms in recipes?

I am taking a programming course and trying to create my own soap calculator for my final project. I will be able to figure out the programming part after a lot of this... :headbanging: but, I am having trouble finding a resource to explain the actual math behind the calculator... all my...

I think I may have a lye heavy / lye pocketed soap. I had two lists of ingredients next to each other, one for an 8 pound batch and one for a 10 pound batch. I know I used the 8 pound oil measurements but, I am wondering whether I might have used the 10 pound lye or 10 pound lye and water...

I am new and I know standard process is to mix your dry colorants into oil from the batch then add it back in later. My question is, why don't people mix the colorants into the FO/EO? It seems like, since they are often both added at about the same time, that it would make sense and you could...

I used to work with pottery a lot so, imagine my surprise when I started soaping and realized that many of the colorants are the same. I found Titanium Dioxide and Kaolin Clay at my local clay supply house. I started looking at their website and comparing it to BB and noticed that many of the...