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Hey there! I haven't made soap in over a year and when I did make soap, I was making CP bar soap! I'm now interested in making some liquid soap for Christmas gifts and have a few questions.. 1. Can I use soapcalc to determine the properties of a liquid soap? Or is there a liquid soap...

Maybe it's just my nose then.. It's tarnished from the stink of that beer soap.

Neem is pretty stinky! lol.

I think it's the Babassu and Castor Oil I used Olive, Castor, Coconut, Babassu, Sal butter and Shea butter

I think my combination of base oils might stink a bit.. and I was wondering if those smells fade away during curing?

:lol: little yeasty bodies.. How cute! ^_^ I sure hope so!! hahaha Thank you for the confidence boost though. I feel so sad walking by its stink! :P

Nice :) I had one cedarwood base and one vetiver.. I went with the vetiver.. but I think the cedarwood is a bit nicer because it's more fresh scented in comparison.

I did.. It's like a smoky leather smell.. We'll see if it smells good.. I'm having doubts though. I don't think it's a good soap smell. I was trying to make a man smell.. HAHA!

Okay! Thank you. I'm hoping it goes away.. And I'm hoping my EO blend isn't TOO awful once it settles.. LOL!:lol: Vetiver smells really smoky woodsy.

I made this really nice Guinness soap.. And I made my own EO blend (don't even ask) and it smells SO FREAKIN' DISGUSTING!!! I just wanted to share.. Okay the EO blend had Vetiver, Clove, Lavender, Patchouli in it.. lol. This soap smells like a wet dog (maybe it's the coffee grinds, maybe it's...

I feel like melt and pour is cheating.. but I also feel that it's possibly a fun way to do different things that you might not be able to do with CP soap. I feel like a CP soap is more natural.. as you decide every ingredient that goes in it..

I do love spreadsheets.. I'm going to make one while my lye mixture cools! ^_^

I do the calcs by hand and always check with an online lye calculator.. I was just not thinking to check my SAP values.. but all that means is that I know what to verify next time because this will be ingrained in my brain! :)

WELL! Hahaha there's the problem! I somehow managed to use the wrong sap value for EVERY SINGLE oil... I must have mixed them up when reading off the page.. lol

I'll double check my sap values.. I'm using NaOH

I did all the calculations to determine my lye/water ratio for this new soap twice.. 907.18g oils, 5% superfatted Castor Oil: 5% Coconut Oil: 11% Babassu Oil: 11% Sal Butter: 12% Shea Butter: 5% Olive Oil: 56% Hand calculated, my lye/water ratio should be: 139.54g lye/302.21g water...

Thanks everyone! It makes me think of a creamy maple fudge.. Mmmm :)

Thank you! :) ..My other bars were not squishy at all when I unmolded them.. So perhaps they were too hard by that point.. Hence why I threw caution to the wind on this loaf! haha

I made a bar of soap that cut and did not crumble! I probably cut a bit too soon.. But I prefer too soon over too late! And it's such a cute colour because of the honey I added to the lye water. Adding honey to lye water does crazy things! It turned bright orange and then dark brown (the same...

Perfect! Thank you :) 62g/150g it is! :)