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i make my own beer and can personally recommend star san. The owner demonstrated its safety to humans by drinking an entire bottle once. You can get it from any homebrew store or morebeer.com and northernbrewer.com. also, star san will not sterilize. it will sanitize. The only way you could...

different calculators occasionally have different SAP values for oils. Your soap will be slightly more superfatted without the lye, but not by much. If you like it then i would keep doing it that way.

This is very interesting and I greatly thank you for starting that new thread. I look forward to keeping this thread on labels which has made me think more and more about my own.

To meet the definition of soap in FDA’s regulations, a product has to meet three conditions: What it’s made of: To be regulated as “soap,” the product must be composed mainly of the “alkali salts of fatty acids,” that is, the material you get when you combine fats or oils with an alkali, such...

not all olive oil is adulterated. Italian oils have the highest risk, but you can still buy true olive oils and also taste if they are adulterated. For soap making, I always get COAs and the testing information to make sure I am getting what I am paying for. extra virginity is a book about...

Earlene, This is for cosmetics. Shaving soap, by definition from the FDA, is a true soap and thus not regulated by the FDA. Or, at least the artisan wet shaving products most people including me make. Please understand that you cannot look into comments of an old article and use it to make...

In terms of oils that increase lather, your best options are coconut and castor. 5% castor will make a big difference. Castor also accelerates trace so you should be happy about that. Olive oil based soaps greatly benefit from sodium lactate. Try one tablespoon sodium lactate per 1kg oils...

This is a nice bastille recipe. Castile is 100% olive oil while batille is commonly accepted as 70% olive oil or more. If you want the cure time to be shorter, try cutting down the water a bit. 175g will make demolding a lot faster. Castile soap has great lather, but you have to wait months...

This is a very interesting discussion and I enjoy reading everyone's points of views. Soap packaging I believe is regulated by the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act. Shaving soap is also regulated in the same manner as it is not a cosmetic. So the good part is if you get into shaving soaps...

Bulk Apothecary's patchouli is actually pretty great. I use the dark.

I am unfamiliar with Canadian labeling regulations. There is a shaving soap company called Tallow and Steel out of Winnipeg, Canada. You can follow Ryan's labeling example and know you're doing it right. https://tallowandsteel.com/collections/all/products/boreal-shave-soap

are there group buys on the forum? I cannot participate, but it would seem like a great idea to lower costs for expensive ingredients like illipe and cocoa butter.

I have had great experiences with the sage's customer service. They gave me a great deal on some soy wax when they discontinued it. I do get all of my essential oils from Bulk Apothecary though and do not have experience with The Sage's EOs.

there is a shipping calculator. Mike also was the one who told me the cheapest way to ship. 6 1 gal containers at a time.

Soapers Choice has some very nice prices. The shipping cost is not as much as other suppliers. One tip with them, buying the 10 lbs butters and the one gallon containers in multiples of 6 is the cheapest shipping cost per unit. All 6 fit in one of their old oil boxes. Also check out Bulk...

I just got confused by the "soap with labels do not need ingredients lists because bulk soap sold in a store close to me with no labels has no ingredients listed on the nonexistent labels" comments. I guess I did not use exactly the correct wording in my previous comments. Coming back to the...

I use a lot of lemongrass and have never had a seizing issue with it. My myrrh accelerates trace super quick, but I have not seen the same issue with my benzoin. How much tallow are you using? If I were to guess, I would say you are soaping too cold. The stearic acid (the first fatty acid...

that is very interesting as olive oil is one of the gentlest oils for soap out there.

since fragrance oils are 90% solvent, I assume that is the culprit. Fragrance oils have caused ricing, seizing, burning, and a whole host of issues which is why I avoid them as much as I can.

I really like the Dr. Bronners packaging. Bright, colorful/color coded and easy to understand packaging. Turns out they don't use INCI labeling. Bronner's story is a really great one. He was quite crazy! Dr. Bronner's is a bit drying for me. I find it too bad that 'Castile' has morphed...