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Hi, I use 100% coconut oil , with 20% sf as a base for all my soap. I've been wanting to use rice milk as the main additive. There seems to be two schools : one being to use the rice milk as water replacement or to blend rice milk with oils. I've done the first one and it has been a living...

Hi there, I am so disappointed... retried my banana and rice milk recipe last week and my soap ended with a pond of oil at the top of the bar. Have let it cure and its been two weeks now : the bar is very crumbly. Just don't know what happened : the only thing i did differently was to...

Hi all, One of the first reasons i got into soapmaking was to make my own shampoo bars. Somehow got derailed from that objective as i got the soapmaking bug and can't stop trying things out for new recipes...but want to start seriously thinking about it. My issue is that locally not...

Hi, I have got this crazy not so crazy idea of wanting to make a sandalwood banana soap. Both are really good hydratants for the skin, and traditionally we are using both as facials. This will be based on my 100% seawater ylang coconut soap - which i am very happy with. I haven't...

Hi Am back into soapmaking and eager to try recipes with only available products locallly. One product easily available for soapmaking here is the coconut ( oil or milk). So want to stay with 20% superfat- 100% coconut soap as the basis and play with this. I want to try a ylang, coconut...

Hi , I've been making a few infused oil (mainly grapeseed and coconut oil) for my personal use . Have been experimenting with ginger , coffee beans and cardamom. Others are in working process.... Wondered how to use these oils for Soapmaking so that they retain the scent and the...

Newbie on the forum. Not new to Soapmaking but had stopped for a while.Got back into it recently...and ready to experiment with all the natural products I've got available in my new country of adoption.