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I can no longer get meadowfoam oil in a cost effective way for my favorite recipe. Sweet Almond 9.82% Castor 3.51% Coconut oil 24.56% Meadowfoam oil 4.91% Olive 26.2% Palm 26% Cocoa butter 5% Do you think I can just increase my sweet almond by 4.91% or is there onother cost effective oil I can...

one more time.......because I am thick skulled. IF I choose to water discount........I run my recipe through the lye calculator of my choice...........then, by hand, calculate the discount. I can’t make an adjustment in the calculator for the water discount like I can with superfat? Who water...

do you think tea tree essential oil looses its potency over time? I was given a large bottle. The bottle is brown. It smells appropriate.

i prefer to not gel my soap. I have always put it in the frig to gel. Yesterday I put it in the freezer instead. I left it for 24 hours. When I removed it I thought what the heck.....I will take it out of the mold now. Beautiful removal. Nice sharp corners. Can I hear from other non-gellers on...

Brambleberry no longer carries meadowfoam oil. Anyone know where I can get it where the shipping doesn’t cost more than the oil? I am on the west coast.

i started using a bar of soap I made some time ago. I don’t remember the recipe but it was most likely pretty basic. Coconut, olive, palm, Shea butter, micas. There is something hard and scratchy in the soap. It feels like little hard balls. In eight years of soap making I have never had this...

how is it possible to make soap for years then all of a sudden a new problem happens. When I go to use my soaps something in them is scratchy. It feels kind of like sand. Very basic recipe. Coconut, olive, palm, castor, meadowfoam and Shea butter. Sometimes TD. Mica colors. Super fat 5-7%. Ick...

some of my soap has a grainy or sandy feeling stuff in it. I use sodium lactate and do not gel. Everything else in my soap is Pretty average.