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  1. KiwiMoose

    Newton’s Third Law

    Good save! You did the right thing doing emergency hot process. Once thing I will mention - and i'm not so good at imperial measurements - is that it looks like you've use quite a high amount of castor oil? That can accelerate trace significantly. It usually used at 5% of the recipe and 10%...
  2. KiwiMoose

    Honey and Turmeric Recipe

    @bookworm - please don't use both CO and PKO in a facial bar unless the two of them combined don't go beyond 10%. It will be too drying.
  3. KiwiMoose

    Laughing at myself!

    Lucky you saved it here then Zingy! It could have been lost forever.
  4. KiwiMoose

    batter color - less yellow?

    RBO is very yellow compared to the OO I use. I use 20% of each - so that's more than your 35%. Definitely switch from Extra Virgin if that's what you are using - it's expensive and not needed for soap. Aside from that all other oils/fats I use, but for 5% avocado, are very white. Yes my...
  5. KiwiMoose

    How are you offsetting the cost of Olive Oil?

    I use 20% OO and 20% RBO in mine - but I don't think our OO is as expensive as yours by the sound of it. When I started a 1 litre bottle of extra light OO was $9 and now about 6 years later it is $11.90. Instead I buy the 'pure' OO which is not as light in colour, but it's only $9.90 per litre...
  6. KiwiMoose

    If you could only use 1 butter making soap, which one and why?

    If I had to choose between shea and cocoa butters, I'd choose shea because it is less problematic, and it's way cheaper. I use it at 10% and soy 'wax' at 20%.
  7. KiwiMoose

    Trace & Temperatures

    Taking into account all the recipe advice above^, I will also add that Ylang Ylang fragrance is notorious for accelerating. So that wouldn't have helped. Try a lavender batch - that always moved slow for me.
  8. KiwiMoose

    Third Time Lucky Lavender?

    It's happened like that the last three or four times I've used that mica
  9. KiwiMoose

    A good bar??? 165 INS

    Let us know how it goes - and don't forget about the lye concentration setting. :-)
  10. KiwiMoose

    Third Time Lucky Lavender?

    @Vicki C here a pic at 4 weeks, and the same soap at 12 weeks: You can see how the discolouration has spread from the darker coloured parts of the soap. And it also weeps oil from those parts too.
  11. KiwiMoose

    So what happened

    The FO will make a difference, and also the CPoP one has not got the thick soda ash. I recommend CPOP/gelling to help avoid soda ash.
  12. KiwiMoose

    Cute

    Look what i found...
  13. KiwiMoose

    Third Time Lucky Lavender?

    Soap is very independent and will do whatever it wants. Usually the opposite of what you want it to do. 🙃
  14. KiwiMoose

    first dreaded spots, what went wrong?

    They don't look like e DOS to me - just little specks. I think you might be ok. They appear to only to on the edges that touched the mould?
  15. KiwiMoose

    Third Time Lucky Lavender?

    Thank you! It was light trace when i started, and medium trace by the time I finished. It took forever though - so I needed plenty of patience.
  16. KiwiMoose

    Would you do it? Use more of a particular EO than is recommended? Any other recommendations?

    Just popping back in to say that if it was for me only, I would go over the recommended amount. But I’m naughty like that. And I rarely react to things. And I always think that the recommended amounts are always erring on the side of caution anyway, so there’s wiggle room. But, yeah, as I say...
  17. KiwiMoose

    Allergic to lye based soap?

    Just a thought - @cmzaha cant use OO at all in soap. Maybe it’s that?
  18. KiwiMoose

    Impatient or soft recipe

    I too think you need to lower the CO, and increase the butters. Also. I think you do have too much hemp in there and it could be contributing to the softness - and it can go rancid easily. You also don't talk about how much lye/water you are using - too much water can take a long time to cure...
  19. KiwiMoose

    What soapy thing have you done today?

    Yes - hubby was putting on a roast lamb yesterday afternoon and I had to whip into the oven to rescue my soap from the warm-up. He usually asks, but this time he didn't!
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