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I've been trying to make hot proess soap and I always have air trapped in the finalproduct, despite my best efforts. I saw once that yogurt helps to keep it more liquid. Is this true? and if it is, how much yogurt and when is it added? thanks in advance.

I recently made cold process soap with sodium lactate, I read a teaspoon per pound. I haven't seen the results because it was a couple of weeks. Now I want to make hot process with sodium lactate, because I read it makes it easier to pour into mold: My Questions are : Is it the same...

Thanks for your post, Now I understand. Nobody told me that. The fact is I am not famioliar with glycerin becasue where I live I cannot get it. So I had never used it. Of course I am familiar with liquid glycerin as an ingredient of cosmetics and other products. Most grateful.

Thanks for your reply, your and others, I am gaining knowledge on soaps by reading your text. Ia had never given a second thought to this idea of mosturizing: but you are absolutely rightm, it does not add moisture, it just won't strip one's own.

In fact, what I was taught in that course is to melt a piece of solid glycerin, add essential oils and dry herbs and that was it. But I regularly make cold process soap with oils and I have found to help with eczema, my skin never gets the whitish layer typical fromcertain dryness, a friend...

It is in fact M and P cold process, made with glycerin, not obtaining glycern as a by product. I found it fast to make, but I wonder if it has all the beneficial properties of soaps made with oils and other fats

apart from being mosturizing. What other benefits can glycerin soap have. I( just took a course on how to make them, but I don not seem to get if they are a beneficial to skin as cold process soap thanks in advance

Regarding the quality of the soap itself, (not the difference in the making procedure and being able to add swirls, effects aromas etc)) what is the difference in the quality of the soap: mildness, mosturizing propierties, getting stains, lasting of the bar etc.

Thanks for your answer. I think I am going to get a new batch of lye and repeat the process to see if this time I suceed. The, I am going to let it cure as long as I leave the cold process soap I make and see if it dries out.

Day before yesterday I made, for the first time, hot process soap. I followed carefully both the amounts and procedure described in viedo from soaping 101. But my soap turned out too soft. I've cut it and I am going to let it dry. But it was supposed to be ready as soon as umolded. What could I...

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Hi, I've been making solid cold process soap for some time. But this time after a couple of days curing some of the soaps started showing little dark spots. Why is that? The only difference is that I made it in a quite cool day for my town, normally I soap in very hot days (which are the...

Thanks, I just went to the link and it is very a very clear and thorough explanation.

Thanks a lot.

Hi, I just made liquid Castille soap for the first time. The fact is I did not get potassium hidroxide in town so I bought it online. My question is, that liquid Castille soap requieres curing? If so, how long? or does it benefit from aging like solid soap does? Thanks in advance to you all...

Thanks you all It's been great help and also very conforting to see I am not alone in my experimenting with soap. :):thumbs:

Your reply sounds pretty logical. Yes, it is an 80 percent olive oil, 20 % coconut oil with a little bit of beewax to harden it, and also becasue it is suppose to be good for the skin.

No, I did not spayed it with anything .

No I did not use any colorants, I just put a little bit of beewax to harden it a little. And I do not know what gelling the sopa means?

Here is a photo of my soap. I hope this can help you tell me what I did wrong Thanks