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my plan is to put them inside the soap too. I'm wondering if that makes a difference?

If I wanted to add M&P embeds into a CP soap do I have to avoid gel phase? I'm wondering if the embeds would melt if I gelled my soap. Anyone have any experience with this?

thank you for your replies. I will go ahead and use it in my soap making.

Do fragrance oils containing vanilla only turn soap brown or will it turn sugar scrubs brown too? I have a black raspberry vanilla FO that I want to use in a scrub with some pink mica, but I don't want to end up with a brown scrub. The website says it will turn soap tan, but mentions nothing...

it doesn't say anything about minerals being added back in. It also has Ozonized on the label. Not sure if that is a good thing or bad for soaping.

I would like to make a dog shampoo bar for my four dogs. I have read a lot of posts on the subject and it seems it can be done with both CP and M&P soaps. Is there an advantage over using one method or the other? I was thinking that M&P probably has a longer shelf life than CP. The dogs...

I know it's best to use distilled water when making soap. However, I often have trouble finding it. But I seem to be able to find demineralized water much easier. Will this work just as well as distilled water?

essential oil is from Voyageur in BC. I'm thinking the DOS must be from something else. But I just can't figure out what. So frustrating. I followed all the must do's to avoid DOS and I still ended up with some.

thank you for the tip. Was is EDTA? Is it possible my essential oil was expired? i really like the small of Anise and would love to make more. But I don't want to risk ruining more batches. Would a new bottle be just as likely to cause DOS? Is Anise known to cause problems?

I made a bunch of soap back in the fall. Around October - November. I was checking on some of them and noticed the DOS on my Anise bars. All the other soaps seem to be fine. Is it possible the Anise essential oil caused the spots? I used distilled water, and a very basic recipe with palm...

I have recently started making some melt and pour soap and made a few batches of clear soap coloured with lab colours. I was just adding a few drops of the concentrated lab colour into the melted clear soap. Everything seemed fine until I left a pink soap out in the sunlight on a table. I...

ok I must have read it wrong somewhere. Can you add both sugar and salt?

I have seen several recommendations for adding sugar or salt to the soap batter at trace. I'm wondering what the difference would be between salt and sugar? do they both create more bubbles or do they each do something different? Also I have seen recommendations for 1 tsp or 1tbs PPO. Which...

ok good to know. It gets really hot and humid here in the summer so I might have to wrap just in case.

Is there scent fading in MP soap? Is EO or FO preferred in MP soap?

I was thinking about trying some MP imbeds in CP soap and I was wondering if the final product has to be wrapped in saran wrap or will it be fine with just the small amount of MP in each bar?

maybe I did overheat it. I will keep it cooler next time. It might have been when I added the liquid oils to the melted lard. I wasn't really careful to avoid bubbles. I will definitely take more care next time.

The Gentleman: I just tried this recipe and I had tons of bubbles in my batter. the lard seemed to froth a lot. I was careful with mixing and it still happened. I'm afraid my soap will be full of air pockets. is this normal with lard? It's the first time I have tried lard in a soap recipe.

I had no idea there was a difference. what is a typical lye concentration?

I have just started using SoapCalc to make some soap recipes. Up to this point I was using recipes from beginner books. My question is what percentage of the oils should the water be in a regular soap recipe? what should it be in a salt bar recipe? I feel like the recommended 38% water is high?