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It looks like a great start anyways! Liquid Olive Oil Soap is so special as far as I remember when I used it, it has a unique effect especially to the hair.. What I think happened, is that you might have exceeded the amount of water that is required to achieve the reaction during the initial...

KOH seems to be almost right, slightly increased though. To the best of my knowledge, the water used is being incorporated over two stages. The first time is when KOH is dissolved in it to produce the water/lye and react the oil with it. By looking at the recipe I can see that first amount of...

I can think of the reason why the bottle is collapsing in this sense: The breakdown of the triglyceride inside of the bottle emits carbon dioxide. The Carbon dioxide that becomes dissolved in the liquid (water) produces carbonic acid. Carbonic acid neutralizes the potassium (or sodium) hydroxide...

Carbon dioxide. The reaction still needs Oxygen and it's trying to absorb it from the outside.

I agree with cmzaha, though to a certain extent. Soap can be harmful or harsh to the hair and the body too being a sodium or potassium salt. Even though I have been making soap for almost 30 years now, I ended up bathing with water alone most of the time, without using neither "natural" nor...

This sounds wonderful runnerchiki! I've started a thread somewhere else here in this forum about making pure olive oil soap, or pure soap in general, please take a look if you wish to explore the process.. I am all excited to learn about your blends for skin care!

I don't know DeeAnna.. Why do you say that your replies or posts were ignored? How do you know? Maybe I've read them and highly respected what you wrote. Maybe many others read your replies and got useful information from. Not commenting on your posts or replies does not mean they were ignored...

Thanks Bladesmith. I think that I can put "how I make soap" under 3 main categories. The first one has to do with boiling. Soap factories mainly make soap by combining Full-boiling + Salting-out. Some of the advanced factories include Steam Pressure along with the other two main processes. What...

Hi DeeAnna, First of all (and last of all) :) All respect to you, to this forum and its members. I am not really encouraged or have any need or cause to go through personal conflicts, or "sharp" discussions of any kind. I wonder if you are an Admin in this forum so that you are legible to send...

Hi Pihala. I am sure that you can find plenty of information here in this forum about soap making. I've been making soap for 26 years now, and I've spent several years trying to improve the soap so that it's good for hair.. Please feel free to ask me anything, or feel free to join my thread...

No problem :) (reply to StoneCottageSoapworks) Actually I was reading that part again yesterday in your reply about increasing water each time. I'd like to discuss, talk about that with you, or understand more about what you mean. When I relate it to my understanding, it's that the Hydrogen and...

Yes, very much true.. sometimes I look again at what I've written and correct as necessary. I looked again at what I wrote, and I've found that I wrote "some" in point one. My aim of this is that the posts can serve as a source of information to someone so they ought to be a bit accurate. Please...

1- If Lemon juice was added instead of water in the lye/water solution, it will neutralize some of the Naoh. This means that the water/lye concentration becomes less than that which is required to neutralize the oil (or oils) and turn it into soap. Depending on other factors, This MIGHT lower...

Thanks again Earline for spending this much time replying to my posts. I was reading your replies again, and I thought of commenting further on some of what you wrote. It's true that what I am talking about as in Salting-out is very much similar to what is being done in commercial factories...

Thank you Earlene for your wonderful reply. When Lemon juice is counted in the water/ lye solution, Naoh destroys contents other than oil in the juice. I understand that this is a communication process. And communication can take some time and effort for the information to be exchanged properly...

Thank you Grandmother. I thought so, you don't need more explanation! cheers

I'd like to add another note, that this thread is mainly about adding fresh lemon juice to soap. The most efficient (if not the only) process to make that work is again the salting-out, (which can be very frustrating by the way!). I can count hundreds of times making salting-out before I...

It's not that I don't have fun with soap making. I become thrilled when I end up having good soap. As I've said I am pointing out to the purpose of salting out. Sometimes it's necessary especially with some kinds of oils that have Glycerin such as Olive Oil. Salting-out olive oil soap also...

Salting-out is not about having fun as far as I know :) It's not about re-batching neither (such as in the video) though it works for re-batching - but adds salt to re-batched soap... Salting-out soap has a main purpose. Salting-out process removes an NAOH residue which is Soda Ash (that can...

I am happy to share and explain in details the salting-out process and when it's good to use it, its downfalls and how to correct it. I've started a thread somewhere else to share that, but It's ok to explain it here in this page or anywhere else. As for vegetable oil recipe, I like to base the...