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Hello, I live on a ranch in New Mexico and our water has about 7,000mg of calcium sulfate per liter. This causes real, non-detergent soap, like we make, to percipitate the sulfates out of the water leaving a film on dishes, sinks, etc. Since we don't want to use Dawn or any other commercial...

Hello, I cooked up my first batch of liquid soap (as per the recipe on this blog: Basic Beginner Liquid Soap and Information). I doubled the ingredients because I have only a 6-quart crock pot, and followed the instructions carefully. The soap thickened up to the consistency of something like...

Greetings, I made a batch consisting of only coconut oil with 3% total of frankincense & lavender EO. When the mix hardened and I removed it from the molds, the top surface that was exposed to the air was quite crumbly. I could rub my finger over it and roll up the crumbs as shown in the...

In need of expert advice: I made a batch using the following formula, and it came out soft, taking a very long time to harden. So far, after one week, I can still make a depression in the bars fairly easily with my fingertip. My question is, should I increase the percentage of sodium lactate...

Hello, Very new to this — only two batches of CP, 100% coconut oil at this time. But I had a problem with unmolding. I'm wanting a very hard bar, and all I've read tells me that 100% coconut oil soap needs to sit in the mold for a relatively short time — about 8 to 18 hours — or risk it being...

Hello, Since most forums don't like redundant threads, I search for a long time here before asking this question. I'm making HP coconut oil soap, fully saponified (no superfatting in-process), and I want to know how much olive oil I should add. I've heard that superfatting with olive oil...