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So I could be SBing it too much? I use it pretty intensively.

Yeah many thx. I've upped the olive oil and will try that.

I'm making about 2 lbs of soap in block using: 30% palm oil 30% coconut oil 30% olive oil (virgin) 10% almond oil 3% superfat with 2:1 water to lye. I soap at about 100 deg F. When I pour in the lye water it goes to medium to thick trace really quick in maybe 1 min. My first batch I could...

I've been doing some research on this, but bear in mind I'm EU based so it's from that POV. There is no formal legal definition of natural ingredients or natural cosmetics but there are private standards such as natrue.org. EU regulation says you must be truthful in your claims so you may need...

Thx that's really interesting. I might try making my own infusion on a small scale.

I actually posted some of this stuff on reddit but didn't get a great reply. I want to use 'natural' fragrances. Normally this means essential oils, but some botanicals don't yield an essential oil. My main concern is vanilla. My second concern is that I heard that the saponification process...

I just wanted to see if this would work. I made a small puck shape from plasticine (the blue object) and poured polycraft silicone around it, then left it for 12 hrs. After unwrapping it I ended up with a rough mold to make a soap that is about 50 g. Then I made a high coconut oil soap up in...

I'd like to make some bars which are round but also smooth so no corners, like an ovoid. Is the soap going to be able to saponify in the mold is or this sort of mold really for melt and pour soaps? Would the silicone survive the lye?

Yeah it's just the batch number I'm speaking of. In principle I could just print out labels with the correct batch number already on, but this means I have to adjust my label every batch and print out labels 'in batches' as it were. It's gonna take more man hrs.

That's not a bad idea really but I was hoping for something less fiddly. I bought an OTS lip balm the other day and the manufacture had done some sort of on the fly dot matrix print onto the tin, over the existing printed label. Just wondered how this was done and how costly.

If I have labels printed out already, but wanted to add a batch number to the label, does anyone know the best way? One option is just to hand write it on, but I'm not satisfied with this. Another way would be an old school rubber stamp, and this is what I might use if there's no digital...

I made the same again and this time left them too cool in the room with no extra insulation, plus I added the lye with the oils at about 100 deg F, and used water at 2:1 now. A came out really good. No cracking on the surface. B still reached trace really quick, in about 1 min, and I probably...

I'm not too bothered about gel or not, just would like to be consistent and not have a soap which is half gelled. That would be the middle of the soap is gelled and the outside isn't which looks bad?

I'm getting some non-soap cosmetic products ready to sell in the EU and all claims need some evidential basis. These are cosmetic claims I am speaking about. Like deodorising or sun protection or reducing appearance of wrinkles. Regulation 1223/2009 formally defines a cosmetic product: "...

I made two recipes: A and B. A was: Olive oil Pomace 454 g Coconut oil 284 g Palm oil 170 g Water 312 g Lye 130 g This is water: lye of 2.4:1 and superfatted at 5% and 29.4% lye. B was: Olive oil Pomace 227 g Coconut oil 227 g Palm oil 170 g Castor oil 170 g Almond oil, sweet 113 g Water...

Does Beer or Wine have an INCI category or name?

Is yeast an animal?

It was my understanding that actual essential oils needed their INCI botanical name (on the label), but I just found an online retailer of 'natural' soaps who are using 'PARFUM' for (in their words) a custom blend of essential oils. Is anyone able to shed any light on this?

I'm new to soap but I've a bit of experience making other cosmetics. I'd say that letting the edt evaporate would just mean you lose the volatile fragrances anyway so it's pointless. One thing I learned is that terms like 'essential oil' can mean almost anything. Some things are cut with...