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There is no problem concerning quality. The problem I talked about is connected with quantity.

Thank you @DeeAnna. My asked you because I made such detergent and couldn't use less than 60g. Which absolutely corresponds with your answer. There is advertisement that says their powder is more efficient and more concerned than commercial. They claim they use only soap and natural ingredients...

Well maybe the question is badly structured. I don'tknow where that "dust" came from. My initial idea is if it is possible to use less home made powder made of soap, Sodium carbonate, etc. than you are used to use from commercial laundry detergent. I have read the suggested quantity - 1-2...

I have a question that has excited me for some time. Is there a way for household washing powder to have lower consumption than commercial dust. How much of your house dust do you use? Have you investigated this?

This statement is not for particular soap or recipe. It was written as basic statement. Yes it might be connected with concentration.

Does anyone knows what might mean that 3% SF in potassium soap is equal to 10% SF in sodium soap? Is it correct?

Hallo @lsg , I am a little bit confused of that LS tutorials. Do you use boric acid or Borax to neutralize your soap? Everywhere they write 20% solution of Boric acid or 33% solution of Borax. How this is possible? The solubility limit of Boric acid at 25 degrees Celsius in water is about 5%...

Hallo Lima, 1. I am little bit confused. How it is one and the same soap in different times. You mean you have divided the batch into small jars and you added the EO to one of the immediately after dilution and to the other after several months? What have you tried to fix it? What were the...

Strongly NAY! It definitely doesn't worth. Rose absolute is more expansive than gold and does not deserve to finish in soap :( Do not use even Rose Essential oil in soap. You can imitate Rose scent with Rose Geranium, Citronella, Palmarosa, Rosewood oils and maybe others.

@geniash one way of destruction of sucrose is breaking the link between glucose and fructose - right. That is the main problem of sugar production - to keep the sugar intact after treatment with calcium hydroxide (mild alkali). In strong alkaline conditions ways of degradation of sugar are more...

Nope. I will try substituting all honey I use in soap with something else. There are other options. I don't see any reason to keep using honey if there is no honey in the soap.

Same as you.

Sorry but I am not sure. Following the logic that hydoxyl groups are responsible for the action of sugars I suppose that smaller compounds with hydroxyl groups are supporting bubbles too. Lactic acid/sodium lactate is compound with hydroxyl group too. It is one of the products of the degradation.

@TheGecko , under severity I mean harshness. Strong alkaline media like 50-40 even 20 % lye solution is very disrupting media for many compounds. Yes soaps have antibacterial properties because the molecule is not changed. Also process of saponification is well investigated. Same is with coconut...

@Kcryss I don't think I am ready to teach soapmaking. For the moment I collect the pieces.

@Kcryss It's not about the temperature only. The greatest problem in lye based soaps is the alkalinity. Ingredients should be stable in strong alkaline solution. I do mostly CP soap and the severity of the initial mixture is extreme. In HP soap making it is the same but degradation process is...

Fats react with lye but the hydrocarbon chain remain intact. It is not the same. You don't get new compounds with different molecule. Also reaction between fats and lye is very well known and without multiple compounds. You know that from oleic acid you get sodium oleate and so on. You don't...

https://books.google.bg/books?id=NDnNCOG6RWcC&lpg=PP1&hl=bg&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false - starting from page 290 https://books.google.bg/books?id=xteiARU46SQC&lpg=PR1&hl=bg&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q=alkaline&f=false - at page 266 In an Organic chemistry book it is written: In presence of strong alkali...

I know what carboxylic acid is. I know most of them are not harmful to people but they are not monosaccharides, right. And I knew someone would pick precisely carboxylic acids from the list. Would you disagree that fructose and glucose undergo transformation in strong alkaline media?