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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 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?

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 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...

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?