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Thank you for your suggestions and advice...they are greatly appreciated! It seems the consensus is to wait it out a few more weeks at least and trust the science and the zap...Or lack thereof .

I'm fairly new at this soap making thing...about 2 months. I don't think it has much to do with the weather, I've just noticed that with some of the soaps that I've let cure for 6 weeks, like the above recipe, when I test them, my hands need moisturizing after. So by harshness, I mean dryness...

recipe example good suggestion! Here's one recipe that I've tried. 1 oz castor oil (2.9%) 3 oz coconut oil virgin (8.6%) 1 oz jojoba oil (2.9%) 28 oz olive oil (80%) 2 oz shea butter (5.7%) 4.41 oz lye 11.55 oz water traced very nicely, poured into molds, unmolded in 2 days, quite soft...

Hello, I've been making a few different batches of soap, running them through a lye calculator, following the recipes religiously, and yet they seem to be harsh on my skin. I have done the zap test...nothing. But when I test them with the ph test strip from the drug store, they come out with a...