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I'm making liquid shampoo using tussah silk that I dissolved into the lye water. The paste seized within 10 minutes of hand blending. Now, I'm cooking the paste on my slowcooker and it seems to be drying out in parts, not cooked. The parts that touch the walls of the crockpot becomes like wax...

Thank you for the reply. I tried cooking it again for another 4 hours, only the cloudy part, and it seems to work fine. The soap is clearer now, though not as clear as my regular non cocoa butter soap. I guess I need to add more time in the crockpot when I dilute it. It's now sitting in my huge...

I've been making liquid soap with avocado, castor, coconut, olive, ricebran and sunflower, superfatting with 5 % cocoa butter, 20% of the water is replaced with glycerine. On some days, my soap came out okay, clear with no cloudyness or separations. But on some days, it separates into two...