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Hello! I'm searching for a good resistant stick blender that prevents air bubbles and is strong enough to mix up to 30 lbs of soap, do you have any favorites? How many watts should I look for?

I've been having problems with one of my soaps. It's a rice milk soap with pachuli and lemongrass EOs. I'vee been using the same eo blend for 6 years and making this exact same soap for the past 2. It has always been a tricky one because the scent + milk combo can get very warm, however my last...

Hello! I've been founding DOS in my soaps that aren't that old, around 6 months to a year. My recipe is OO, CO, and cocoa butter with 5% SF. I've been thinking about using sodium citrate, but first I thought I'd ask if in your experience you think it's worth it or I should look for other ways...

Hello! Im making a batch of pachuli and lemongrass. I weighted my eos as always (have made this soap for 5 years now) but this time I diluted them in Olive Oil first because I was adding colorant (OO infused with anatto). As soon as I mixed, something gooey appeared on the bottom. I tried...

Hi! For those of you that have made their own slab molds, I'd really appretiate your advice! I made this wooden mold for 44 bars and line it with a 5 mm acrylic and a 0.5 mm plastic but I've found the size of my bars isn't right and it's making them weight less than they'r supposed to. I made...

I was melting cocoa and coconut oil and forgot for a bit and I don't know if I burnt them! the temperature rised up to 100 C (210F), at first I thought I smelled something funny but I'm not sure anymore. Has anyone burnt oils? How can I know for sure? Should I toss them?

Hello! I've been using the same recipe for a while and always cut around 24 - 48 hrs after pouring. This last batch I made was super hard after 20 hrs and when I cut it some of the bars cracked around the edges... What could have happened? Are there any variables that affect how fast it...

Hello! I made this soap yesterday and today when I cut it I found all these weird spots that look like stearic but I'm not sure. The bottom half that has the spots was colored with 2 tsp zinc oxide ppo. Also I could barely cut it after 20 hrs of pouring and some corners broke from it's...

Hello! Anyone know what these white spots could be? It has lots of them and then that weird change of color that makes it whiter in the top. Recipe: Canola, Olive, Coconut and Castor oils. Rice porridge added with the lye Colored with anatto rhubarb infusion for the orange and rhubarb powder...

Hello! I made some different recipes to try out and compare. One of them is OO 60% CO 25% Cocoa 15% and did two versions, first one with 5% SF and the other one 2%, hoping the later one would last longer with the reduced SF but to my surprise it has been the opposite! For the test I used...

Hello! I'm exploring the option of tweaking my basic recipe by changing canola oil (20%) for organic safflower or sunflower. Since I'm looking for organic oils I know they'll be the low oleic version and I'm afraid they will go rancid pretty quickly and cause DOS. For those of you who use...

Hello! I made a multi wire cutter with some guitar strings and as soon as I tried them a bunch of them popped. Maybe I'm not using the right kind? Saw on youtube someone using galvanized wire which is way cheaper but I'm not sure if this is OK for cold process soap... has someone here tried...

Hello! I tried auntie clara’s water discount technique, wanted the bottom half of my soap darker, more traslucid (higher % water - 30% lye concentration) and the upper part lighter (38%) in the same batch I used a 33% lye concentration to make a test with beetroot powder. Of course everything...

Hello! I had some complains about my soaps lasting too little, my recipe then was: OO 40%, CO 25%, canola 20%, cocoa 10% and castor 5% with 6% SF. I’ve been changing it trying to make a better bar but still cant notice any difference! Because of my costumers I’m restricted to vegan palm free...

Hello! This is a soap I made a year ago, it’s a coconut milk soap, has some caolin clay and colored with anatto infusion. I sold this soaps to a store a couple of months ago and they were perfectly fine, they had been curing for over 9 months when I sent them. Now they have developed this...

Hi! I made tis soap yesterday and when I cut it it looked like this :s My recipe was: OO - 40% Canola - 20 CO - 20 Cocoa- 10 Shea - 10 It has 3 different colors: beige (pink clay diluted in water), orange (turmeric and rhubarb infusion), dark red (rhubarb powder non diluted). My first...

Hello! I made a 100% CO soap and it turned pink! Have no idea why... has this happened to anyone before? It has 33% lye concentration and no additives, just plain lye and CO. I also mixed for too long jaja that’s why it looks so bad... but look at this color It’s crazy!

Hello! Today I'm making a slightly brine soap, I'll be using 10% salt (as water weight) and 50% of the water will be replaced with aloe vera juice which I'll be adding to the oils. So I'll be diluting the salt and lye in 50% of the water but I can't figure out if this is enough water to...

Hello! I have 3 different soaps in my shower and two of them are smelling weird. The first one is from a batch I made a year ago and I have noticed DOS in other soaps from the same loaf, it smells odd and it has turned yellow in the edges. The second one also smells and had a slight color...

Hi! I'm looking to upscale my soap production to 25 pounds. Is there any scale you'd recommend for this? Someone said KD 8000 is a good one but I'm worried 8 kg is not enough. Curious to know what your experience has been! Any other advice before plunging into big batches is welcomed...