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Hi folks! I have not made soaps in 100 years. But I will make soap on wednesday. And my plan is to make 3 loaves at a time. Because now, I am out of handmade soap, and that is an emergency! So I have to do something about it. But, I have some old oils. My shea is out of date, but it smells...

Hi y'all! I bought rapeseed wax a while ago, but have not used it yet. I don't know the manufacturer or any other information about it, other that is says on the package "Hydrogenated Rapeseed Oil". To contact the UK supplier and ask for more details about their rapeseed wax, that is worthless...

Hi! I tried to make liquid soap today, but it ended up as cream soap. At least it looks like cream soap, but I have not added any supercream to it. So what did I do? I created a recipe as follows (1000 grams of oils): Oils: 60% refined olive oil 20% coconut oil 10% stearic acid (from a candle...

Hi y'all :-) My scale broke today, so I'm trying to upgrade to a new digital scale with cord, that is both flat and have an accuracy of 0,1 gram (or less, does not matter). It must also be able to weight up to 5 kilo (5000 gram). 3 kilo can do in emergency. But that is the least it has to...

Hi! Dharma Trading, who sells fiber reactive dyes for tie dye etc, they have a color tool for making your own palette. It is ment to help buyers of fiber reactive dyes figure out which colors to buy. But it definately can work for soapmaking as well. The tool is beyond easy to use. Just drag...

Hi! :eek: I guess this may only be relevant for europeans or non-americans, as I understand you only have Canola over there. And I'm not completely sure of what I have found out either. So correct me if I'm wrong. The thing is that I can't find rapeseed oil in SoapCalc. All three entries; *...

Hi folks! :) I am now making my first ever liquid soap. The paste is now in the bowl covered with a towel. And I'm not lying when I tell you I spent 2,5 hours just to get it to trace! And I'm not lying when I tell you I had so bad separation it would never come together again. Eventually it...

Hi! Stupid me bought a big bag of activated charcoal at a local store. I saw it was kind of course and not a superfine powder, but I thought that charcoal is just halfway burned wood, so I can easily grind it down. Well, I have tried big time. My charcoal is actually made of the hardest black...

This text was in the description under a Youtube video where a person made hot processed liquid soap: "Hot Process Soap Making is using different Lye (Potassium Hydroxide - KOH) and usually involved heat to process. It can be used immediately after heated. If you process hot process soap making...

Hi! I struggle with the american system of weight and/or volume. I look at fragrance oils from Aztek International (candlemaking.com). They, as all the other american sites, use oz and lb. Which, you might know, is like greek or swahili for us europeans. Oz is fairly easy, I just type for...

Hi! I'm trying to find a place to order supplies. But one difficulty after another pops up. The first problem, that is constant, is the problem of living in a NON-EU country and customs. I can either order for like nothing INCLUDED the shipping price, seriously nothing, or I have to ask...

Found this while searching on Aliexpress for a cheese cutting board. And to me, it looks like the perfect soap log cutter! :-D Just a little small, so it can only take half a log at a time. Not expensive, $106 with free shipping. I'm not gonna buy it, because I need something cheap, like a...

Hi folks! I have now searched everywhere, almost. I still have to use Google Translate some more and see if I can search in other countries. I have done some countries already, but get a lot of irrelevant hits. I am in Europe, and it is not so easy here to find anything. You have 1...

Can anyone help me with calculating saponification value based on fatty acids? Is it possible at all? We have a product in grocery stores here called Flott Matfett. That is a mixed product containing (in falling order): Shea fat, coconut oil, rapeseed oil. It is used for deep frying baked...

Hi! Where on Earth can I find a wooden tall and skinny mould in Europe? I have found a few, but they are too small or too expensive (shipping included). At themouldshop.co.uk, I could not even register because my country was not on the list. So I just didn't bother. But I calculated shipping...

Hi! I am very, very new to soap making, but have done a lot of research. I came across a site that claims grocery store bought olive oil will not work for soap making: https://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/tips-and-tricks/olive-oils-created-equally/ I don't really believe the...

This is my second attempt of making soap. I made a batch two days ago, that failed completely, in every way possible. That was not olive oil, but canola/rapeseed. So today I decided to make an olive oil soap, because I have read that rapeseed is not a good oil to use. I have also seen on Youtube...