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Did you refrigerate this after pouring? Just curious how you handled the first 24 hours.

I generally only work with Olive, Palm, Coconut, Shea butter, and Castor and I just store them in a cool, dry place. My FO/EOs are in the same place, I don't refrigerate anything.

All you really MUST have is a workspace with good light, an outlet for a stickblender/microwave, some shelves for your stuff, and a good work surface. For a while I used a 6x8 foot folding table and it was fine. Now I have a basement studio with a large 4x6ft standup workbench on casters, a...

Been making CP soap for a while now, never touched M&P before. Couple questions: I basically want to take some clear M&P, melt and add a little blue mica, then pour into individual cavity molds so I can cut it up and use it as embeds in a CP soap. Anyone see any problems with this? I'll...

I mean, you can only give away so much to friends/coworkers and family. I generally only use one bar at a time before grabbing a new one.

toxicon mentioned the first thing I thought about which was the soap sweating as it was brought back into a warm house. Be careful, this could get messy.

The first time I didn't boil at all, just froze it. Seized up right away. The second time I boiled for a good 5 minutes, then refrigerated overnight before using. Seized up right away. Since ethanol boils at like 120F, I'm pretty confident I boiled off most of the alcohol (there will...

It's a local craft brewery, Actual Brewing in Columbus, OH.

Good point. My scale has a resolution of 0.01g, and I figure if I'm within a couple percent of target, I should be good. An example recipe for one bar would be (The margin of error would be well under a gram, leading to the difficulties you mentioned): Olive oil 42.50g Coconut oil 17.00g...

I was concerned that for a high gravity beer, the alcohol won't react with the lye and I would basically have a water discount...

I've been making CP soap for a couple years and recently have started making soap with beer. My basic recipe is: 50% OO 20% Coconut 23% Palm 5% Castor 2% Shea butter No FO/EO, no color. I boil the beer to remove as much alcohol as possible and also remove dissolved CO2, then I freeze into...

Different oils require a different amount of lye to turn them into soap. You can't just say "well olive oil takes 0.1353g lye to saponify 1g of oil, so coconut oil is probably close (it's not, 0.1910)." Please use a lye calculator before making every batch. It takes 30 seconds. It's not a...

I would be testing both. I definitely have a precise scale (0.01g) and would use it for this.

All my batches so far ( a couple years ) have been at least 20oz weight of oils. Theoretically, you should be able to get pretty small with a batch of soap if you have an accurate scale and a precise recipe, right? I'd like to make some test batches that would produce a single 3.5oz bar of...

hxxps://www.bulkapothecary.com/roasted-oatmeal-stout-fragrance-oil/ Just curious, I'm getting my first bottle of this tomorrow and plan to give it a shot in a small batch right away. I don't mind discoloring at all, I'm actually going to make this soap a brownish color anyway. When...

I also wash everything right after pouring. I rinse out any batter I couldn't scrape out, then wash with a drop or two of dish soap and put it on a rack to dry.

I'm a newbie at soaping, I've done about 4-5 batches of CP soap. My first batch, I followed a recipe and procedure I found online, and it turned out great. I had some overheating /cracking/alien brains before I unmolded, but that was the only issue. My first batch was straight from...