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I am on my phone at the moment but that sounds high for the water. Try this: Multiply your lye by 2.3333 which is the same as doing the (lye / 0.3) - lye. Different water amounts will affect gelling and cure times not the actual sap reaction over all.

You may have problems getting it certified "Food Grade" so all those uses are out of the question. (Sweeteners and such) Thickening and so on.. Certainly you can use it in soaps. You can use in in moisturizers. You can use it to extract EOs from herbs (instead of other alcohols). Use it in...

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Neil -- I see (or shall I don't see) you don't have plantain (not the banana) in your recipe. It is usually right up there with jewel weed in most remedies I have seen for the rhus type poisons.

Ok, that's getting closer to the list I was thinking I remembered. I thought I remembered arachidonic acid (ARA or ALA) pretty sure it was supposedly in mammal flesh and or peanut oil...

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Hmmm, now that you mention it I do have a bottle in the pantry calling my name. So if it is not greasy it can still be glycerin or water. You are going to lose excess water as the bars cure. I would simply make sure they have good airflow and watch the humidity. Are you noticing any...

Well, it is all magical and most of the drastic color change things really get kids attentions. When they get older then you have to resort to flames and more violent reactions to get the same reaction. :)

Well if you research it a bit more, (try googling "red cabbage science fair") you will find a lot of plant pigments have a similar response. I assume that is why botanicals as colorants do that thing they do in CP soaps. They look great in an acid environment, but when they go basic some...

I love that exemption, it is part of Pelican's "Lifetime Warranty" I think it is the same for their flashlights and cases. "Shark bite, bear attack and children under 5"... I always wanted to use that.

http://www.biglittlesciencecentre.org/D ... stry_3.pdf It is a common science fair project, up there with red cabbage and others.

I don't think it looks too bad. I agree that you should let it sit a while and see what happens. I think tossing it in the freezer may have caused the material nearer to the sides to cool faster thus sticking, then the center, remaining hot/warm as it cooled shrunk causing the shape you see...

If am understanding this correctly, these 2 don't really mean the same thing exactly. In a lye discount, you calculate everything for a given recipe, and then use less lye. In a superfat, you calculate everything for a given recipe, and then use more fat. However, both terms seem to...

I can count 8 so far for which I can find specific details and attributes. Are there any others that I am missing? For some reason I thought there were supposed to be 15 of them. Lauric Linoleic Linolenic Myristic Oleic Palmitic Ricinoleic Stearic

I have never smelled babies breath seed, but I know the blossoms stink :) I would hope that the cardboard clam shells are made from acid free paper, but I guess it is possible that they are not. Some chemicals from the paper could be reacting/leaching in to the soap, or the acidic paper can...

I can't remember the movie, but there was a fellow (cowboy) that I guess the Indians were not happy with, so they burred him up to his neck and put a canteen just out of his reach. When the other fellow comes along (who they have been having some ongoing rivalries through the movie) he asks him...

You can always just tell them that if they sue you, then you will not give them any more soap. :D

That recipe appears to be 5% superfatted already. My original suspicion, did you use a scale for all measurements or did you use measuring cups or spoons? For the molds you can use a petroleum oil like mineral or baby oil or vaseline, since it doesn't saponify. However to line your molds...

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hopefully :D