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sorry, what is the batch size for 10 drops ?

I have added 3% of grapefruit but it has almost faded out completely after one week. Do I use too little ? Or it is because of grapefruit ? I had waited the soap paste to cool down to about 160 degree before adding the EO. Is it still too hot ?

I was told that oo was the best for single oil soap, even for baby soap. But this web only rank oo as No. 11 and "conditioning 3 squeaky, not drying but not real nice either". Should I change my mine as per this web's rating ?

Thanks for your reply. Following are the result of my last 100% olive soaps result : 1st - 50g olive oil, ph 8~9, double-boil for 90 min. 2nd - 100g oo, ph 8~9, DB for 90 min. 3rd - 100g oo, ph 8~9, DB for 90 min. As per the above result, I wonder whether I mis-weight lye quantity...

This is my 4th trial on HP making. I tried 100% olive HP at first 3 trial and I would say they were success. So I modified the recipe to : - Olive 180g - Canola 75g - Coconut 45g - water 114g - lye 40g I followed the same procedure as before : - solving lye with distilled water...

It makes me feel that soapmaking is some kind of art, instead of science. So can't reply on numbers, but feeling :D Thank you so much.

I made my 1st HP soap with 100% olive oil with 5% superfat last week. I unmolded it after the soap was cold and left it on my desk for a week. I pressed on it and felt that it was hard enough. So I tried to bath with it. After getting wet with warm water, it seemed dissolved with some gel on my...

Yes, it is strange. I wonder whether the phenomenon due to the reaction with the soap base. Is this called "dis-color" ?

Do anyone know that the meaning of "trace" ? Does it mean that saponification is just started ? Or simply oil/lye/water are all mixed completely ? Or anything else ?

Yes, I did. But their "candle and soap" color is neither water-soluble, non oil-soluble. I had emailed them several times for help but nobody replied :evil: I found another post mentioning someone asked NDA or ND U.S. how to use one of their product, they replied : "we make product, but not...

It was purple just after M&P. But the color faded next day and finally vanished to become a white soap on the dat after ! Do anyone also have such experience ? What can I do to "save" this color ?

Thanks a lot for your reply. It do help me to clarify that I should not lazy in making soap :oops:

I do understand that the solution of oil+lye should be mixed and blend to trace since it will be left alone for saponification. But how about HP ? Do I still have to blend it until trace before cooking ? I have seen a thread from web that someone just put the oil and lye solution together and...

thank you so much :D

hello everybody. I had just finished my 1st HP with 100% olive last weekend. I found the hardness is okay but the smell is a bit oily. Is there any suggestion to improve the smell if my target is for baby soap ?

thank you so much and sorry for the improper link :oops: I'll keep posting my soap later on :D

Hi there. I have just joined this forum. Followig are two of my newly made MP soaps : and