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I've done 3 batches using vinegar as part of my liquid to produce sodium acetate (1% oil weight) in order to make the bars harder and improve lather, but all three of them are crumbly when I'm cutting them. Some bars even fractured in two. All of the recipes had a high percentage of hard...

Very simple question (I searched but could not find a specific answer). I made a few batches of soap early on that didn't turn out all that great appearance wise (huge drag marks, mica clumps, etc.). They all have micas and they all are of a different colour. I want to rebatch the most...

The last batch I made had soda ash and the recipe was : 20 % avocado oil 20 % shea butter (refined) 5 % castor 55 % lard I used EDTA 0.5 % gross weight, fragrance 31g/kg and used a 8 % superfat. I sprayed with 99 % isopropyl alcohol and the whole top of the soap is covered in soda ash...

I bought some cade EO since I like all things smoky, but it is very pungent. It smells straight up like the ashes from a bonfire : very phenolic. I want to have a touch of smoke in an eucalyptus and peppermint EO blend I plan to use in a body salt bar. Which percentage of cade should I...

I have a bunch of pellet hops (they look like rabbit feed) from homebrewing in the freezer and I thought about using them in soap. I'm not looking for any aroma from them, only mild exfoliation and maybe a touch of colour. Aroma would be taken care of with a blend of grapefruit and pine EO (a...

I have a night pretty much to myself tonight and I plan on trying out hp soap. I also plan to scent the soap for the first time with pine and cedarwood EO. All the calculators and ressources I've found on the web are for cp soap. Since with hp soap, the saponification is supposedly 99 % done...

I've been curing the four batches of soap I've made to date in a cupboard in an unused bathroom (no moisture since there's only a toilet there and it never gets used). Since I don't have coated baking racks (yet) in there, I just put the soaps on parchment paper and I flip the bars every...

I'm taking the soap plunge this weekend and want a fullproof recipe that will make a good, hard bar of soap that can be used to clean hands and also my face. I don't feel I'm ready yet to play with EO or FO, so I left them out. I read that lard can take a long time to trace, so this is why I...

I've been lurking the forum for a few weeks now and decided to join after making the decision to make my first batch of soap this weekend. I decided to mak my own soap after making my own beard oil and beard balm for a few months now (hence the name) : I've always been a hands-on and...