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I contacted an analysis company the other day asking a few questions I had before I sent my recipes for them, one of which was what sort of water I should be using, and I was told I had to buy distilled water. I asked if I could buy my own distillation kit and distil the tap water and was told...

That's a bit above what I was achieving. I might go for the saucepan approach next time then, rather than microwaving it. Thanks!

It smells sort of grassy to me, a bit like when you've got a pile of grass cuttings mixed with leaves that's been rained on recently and is just starting to decay. But it isn't very strong; it hasn't imparted much, if any, scent to my soap, but it is only about 1-2% of the weight of the loaf...

I bought it from the Soap Kitchen. That was the issue I came up against when trying to find out the best way to use it; all I got was hair removal!

I used about 2-3g (I was aiming for 1 but my scales threw a fit and refused to count to 1) in 150g coconut originally but the end batch was 1kg. Temperature, I couldn't say, I was microwaving it, but it was just too hot to touch when I took it out so maybe 50-60Cish?

Someone mentioned green tea wax a few weeks back when I was looking for natural green colourants that don't fade stupidly fast, but I can't work out what I'm supposed to do with it. Upon discovering I couldn't mix it with water, I added some to my heated coconut oil, expecting that it would melt...

I've got an olive/coconut bar with ground nettles that I was hoping would come out green but it's more of a sort of browny-grey. I've tried using spirulina but I really don't like the smell it results in (and it faded to a light yellow around the edges of the bars I made in individual moulds?)...

I've experimented a couple of times with drawing on top of the soap with a syringe full of soap, might work in the bottom of the mould too? Although a disposable icing bag might be an easier idea, I've found it quite hard to control the syringes. If you're making another batch of soap I'd steal...

I had a horrible feeling that was going to be the answer. I've been trying desperately to avoid artificial anything in any of my soaps as I have very sensitive skin that hates everything.

I've been trying for several months now to make a coffee soap that smells of coffee and it just doesn't seem to want to work. I started off with my base mix of oils; olive, coconut, rapeseed, and castor and added ground coffee which made a very nice exfoliating bar but didn't smell of coffee...

This morning it's still a bit weird and sticky around the edges, I can't get it out of the mould. But bizarrely the olive oil one I made which usually requires several days before I can get it out, came out perfectly despite being made an hour or two after the disaster. Never mind, I'll try...

Measured out the lye and water and mixed, measured out the coconut oil and melted in the microwave, measured the other oils into the melted coconut oil and set to one side while I measured out the additives. Added the lye solution to the oils (not sure what temp either were at, I tend to work...

Was making soap this afternoon and someone called as I was mixing in the additions (irritatingly it wasn't even for me) but once I'd finished taking a message and gone back to my soap I noticed it had gone lumpy. Is this simply the coconut oil solidifying while I was gone? Can it find other...

I completely forgot I'd made this thread until I came to try and make a new batch of bombs, thank you all! I've been making bath bombs since I was about 13 (25 now) but I've recently been trying to make them a bit more grown up with an aim to sell them. I've never actually used mica powders...

I'm trying to make coffee flavoured bath bombs, I've got the flavours down but the brown is giving me a headache. Parents left a can of nescafe azera which seems to be a cross between coffee granules and grounds and I thought it would be good to try and colour the bombs with that and ended up...

(I feel like I'm spamming, sorry about that, but I didn't think I could tack it onto the end of my other post being so unrelated) I've got a coconut and olive oil soap that I can't find the recipe for right now but it had no fragrance oil and went to a very thick trace, hence the strangely...

I think I've got away with it, they look really good actually with far fewer air bubbles than I've had in previous soaps. I was going for a cheap hypoallergenic soap as all of my family suffers from dry skin (and I'm poor), but depending on how it comes out I may have to resort to adding...

Thank you! I did leave it for a bit while I went to do some research as to why it wasn't tracing and then went back and blended it a bit more so hopefully it might just about be ok. They look ok on the surface so I'm crossing my fingers and praying!

I tried to make lard soap but I think the higher beings misheard me and what I've ended up with is lard soup. Super simple recipe; 500g lard 190g water 67g sodium hydroxide Waited until the lye water and lard were a similar temperature before I mixed them, hand mixed with a silicone...

I made a batch earlier using soapee's recipe maker and I noticed it has a little box of soap stats, one of which was longevity. Is this in relation to the amount of time the soap will last unused before it starts to lose its properties? Or is it the amount of time the soap will last when being...