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Hello, all, I created my third batch of soap a few days ago, intending to give a few bars to my mom as a birthday present in about a month's time. Oil weight: 660g, or about 1.5 lb Avocado 10% Coconut 76 deg 20% Olive 20% Palm 25% Shea butter 15% Castor 10% Lye conc.: 31.159% Additives: ~1...

For my second soap recipe, I tried to make ungelled oatmeal, almond milk and honey soap. The recipe I made up called for 1040 g of oils. 50% OO 25% Coconut 76 deg 20% Lard 5% Castor 30% lye concentration 341.65 g water (replaced by vanilla almond milk) 146.42 g lye ~1 tbsp Honey 2 tbsp Ground...

Hi, all, I recently bought three different Bramble Berry FOs, and I could not find Rain Cybilla in the fragrance oil review chart. The reviews on BB say that it accelerates trace and promotes gel phase. Has anyone here used this before, and if so, was this your experience? These FOs had been...

Hi, all, Two days ago, I took a crack at creating soap for the first time just to try things out. The recipe was the following, for a 48 oz loaf: 5% Castor oil 30% Coconut oil 10% Canola oil 10% Grapeseed oil 15% Lard 30% EVOO Water was 11.78 oz, lye was 4.40 oz Some used coffee grounds The...

Hi, all! I've long felt an itch to create-especially things that people could actually find useful-and finally took the plunge into soaping two days ago with my first attempt at making a CP soap. It didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, but I'm now hooked. I look forward to gaining knowledge...