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Thanks I've checked out just a soap and will be ordering the fragrance oil from them. I have adjusted my recipe to 60% olive oil 20% coconut oil and 15% cocoa butter and 5% castor oil at 35% lye concentration and will make a 500g batch to start with.

Ok I will try to avoid the ebay specials fragrance oil as most seem like cheap rubbish. Can anyone recommend a good and reasonably priced UK website for getting oils? Or even a reputable ebay seller ? I have some accurate digital scales I have one that weighs up to 500g with 0.01g increments...

Thanks for the warm welcome and sound advice everyone. There would be nothing worse than trying to make soap and fail completely the first batch. This is why I decided to join here and bombard you lot with questions haha. Ok I think I will stick with 35% lye concentration and see how it goes!

Wow 2-3 months to fully cure and I was thinking it would be done curing in 4 weeks. How long do you recommend I leave it in the mould?

I messaged the seller on ebay and he said 10% recommended. I have seen another fragrance that's a lot cheaper and recommends at 7% so i will be buying that instead. I have made some adjustments to my recipe Let me know what you think

Thanks for the input! I will stick to the default 38% water as of oil. The mould says it holds 1.2 kg but i was thinking of using whats left over in individual moulds.

Hello everyone I've recently discovered soaping and it seems like a very cool hobby. I've been doing a lot of reading for the past week and watched plenty of YouTube videos. I'm somewhat confident about making my first batch of soap but do have some questions for you all. I will be making cold...