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Got a bottle of it, but don't want to start using it in everything and having all my soap colors morph! Experience with it and results?

I have KOH from essential depot. Never opened. Got it few months ago but the process of liquid soap making seemed tedious, so never got around to it. I want to try it now, but see that there are different purity levels of KOH it looks like from soapcalc (speaking of which, how to you test...

Some places say you do not need to, others say you do. I figure for the extra water to make the soap (honey viscous) it would need some preservation. Thoughts?

Is it resistant enough like hdpe 2?

I was looking at the prohibited list and verbena is on it. But i see that many companies use it. What gives?

It's really thick! Like molasses. Do I warm it up and use it neat in my soaps. Or do I dilute it to 3% with a carrier like jojoba?

How much water do you add to rebatch (steep water discount) soap? I do not have sodium lactate or goats milk. I do a 1.5:1 (W/L) ratio. Nothing is wrong with the soap, but i hate the color. Company said it wouldn't morph but it did, and now it's a light blue grey when i was going for a deep...

Hi there, a long while back a person on a facebook group said she get's fragrance oils free from certain chemical. The chemical i guess can cause reproductive or cancerous harm? Idk. I was wondering if you guys could clue me in to the name of that chemical to look out for. I totally forgot what...

Hi there, I'm really interested in doing hot process in my specialty soaps, as to control what the lye monster eats. But am scared of the volcanoes and all the crazy things i have heard about it. I have a few questions about those familiar with this process. -Natural colorants that...

How do they differ in smell? Which do you prefer?

I was looking at the powerblankets to heat up oils to make a masterbatch. But it's pricy just for that one thing. When you make you masterbatch oils, do you heat them up just in a regular pot and transfer to a bucket? Those commercial stockpots or just regular large kitchen pots can get pricy...

Never made it before. I've read some make it for hair shampoo. But does it make the bar of softer? Harder? Stinkier? Or no change?

So i understand soap does not fall in the drug category as it's only purpose is to "clean" People however put ingredients in them to help "mitigate" conditions like acne making it a drug. And thus falls under the fda. Anyone here ever go through the process of actually submitting their product...

I got some bottles and lotion pumps from sks. They both came in bags and i don't trust that it is "clean". Since i can imagine it being handled by a few warehouses, packaged by å few people before landing in my own hands, with its own bacteria as well. So how do i go about disinfecting lotion...

Both come up interchangeably. But it seems there are variances that separate them even though from the same plant. Where to buy both?

I just read another thread not to far down from this one. Dual...lye...soap. What!! So many questions! 1) What does it do? I see people use it for shaving cream soap. Is it possible to have the Koh kept at low percentages to have a still firm bar of body soap with fluffier bubbles? (i have...

How does it react in soap? I always seem to buy celery and never use it. So let's make soap with it! Who here has experience with it and what were the results?

Do you need to sterilize mason jars to put dry material in it like sugar or botanicals? Or would simply wiping it with alcohol be sufficient

Anyone with experience using woad? Do you make an oil infusion, add to lye water, or just put in directly. Lots of places talk about indigo but not woad and how much to use ppo. Also, has anyone experience fading with woad?

I made a big jug of annatto infused olive oil. Boy is it so pretty!! I can't wait to try other natural dyes. But I have questions about how much to use. Do I substitute this for the entire amount of olive oil in a recipe? Or do you just use tsp/tbs ppo? Lastly, do you discount the amount of...