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Hi all! I have talked to a guy who has developed an lye calculator app for soap maker for FREE (Yes, its free). It is for Android OS and available as Soap Book. He is not a soap maker but develop it for his friend, so help would be welcomed. :razz: Lets help him so we can have a good soap...

Nice, thanks BulkApothecary. Many guides recommend to use up to 3% FO for liquid soap, I think because their FOs are not very strong. Anyone have any idea about addnig extract or additives to increase moisturizer? :)

Hi all! I making liquid soaps, 1st batch and I got some questions that google couldnt give me best answers. Hope you guys can help :D . 1) Guides said that we can also put EO (or oil soluble FO) into LS, at about 2%/pound. But EO is oil and LS is kind of water, will EO not mix in and floating...

So, when those ingredients are listed, it is not because they are in some EO that included in the soap but constituents extracted from those EO?

Hi all! I have just seen some handmade soap with ingredients like: linalool, limonene, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Benzyl Benzoate and other INCI names of carrier oils like normal handmade natural soap. What are these and are they considered natural? I rarely see handmade natural soapers on...

So it maybe different because of origins of olive oil?

@yoenoess: I and my friend tried it seperatedly on our own, but same result. I never try adding BW or SL for that castille recipe since I see it strange by gelling for months. :(

Well, no zip with tongue test, 100% pure Olive oil pressed. Strange hah? :(

I am in Vietnam, mate :) That EVOO u talking about is very expensive :(. My Metro Pomace cant make my soap hard. It stayed gel for a very long time (>6 months till now?) Thats why I have to use EVOO :( Thanks all, I will try it on my tongue tonight. God bless it :))

When I blended and poured, nothing strange happened. It is also 100% pure Olive oil. :( . This does not happen for every Castille soap in this batch.

No, it smelled Lavender, coz I put Lavender EO in it :lol: and it is weird that here in South Asia, extra virgin olive oil make very yellow soap. :(. Anyone know what did this? :(

Thanks a lot adoptapitbull :) . I do think its partial but you confirmed it for me . Maybe there would be no third time for me :))

Hi! I made a batch of castille about 3 weeks ago, and some of my Castille soap bar has white area while the whole bar is yellow. I used 100% Extra Virgin Olive from Metro CAsh&Carry. Anyone got this before? :( Uploaded with ImageShack.us

I made a batch of avocado soap 5 days ago and put it in freezer. Yesterday I cut it and found a circle in almost every pc of soap. The circles increase in diameter in each soap. Anyone know why it happened to my soap? :( Before 6 months ago I made an carrot juice soap and it has a warmer circle...

@awi: I think its because some ppl prefer unrefined butter. Refined butter went through some chemicals to remove odor and white bleaching and thus some ppl prefer it unrefiend, more "natural" :).

Thanks guys. I feel relief. :D

So cocoa butter must be tempered every time we make soap with cocoa butter? Tempering like this will increase production time by 45-60 minutes at least, and its not convenient to temper all the cocoa butter at once (40 pounds for me). How to solve this situation? If I still try to use...

Thanks for so helpful info guys :D

I watch ads of Lifebouy that is about killing 99.9% of bacteria and wonder if our handmade soap can do it. I often read triclosan in INgredients of Lifebouy and also know it is a good anti bacteria material. Can we use it in making our soap? I just to make sure I can answer customers if they...

So, ungelling method can cause partial gel more easily?? Anyone tell me why and how to prevent it? Thanks!