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  1. stanekster

    Can Stearic Spots appear after cutting bars?

    Hello, I am struggling to figure out what I am doing wrong here. I am making some goat milk soap but I keep getting white spots showing up and ruining the design of the bars. The spots usually appear after 12-24 hours after I cut the loaves. I was wondering if it is possible for stearic spots to...
  2. stanekster

    76 vs 96 Coconut oil impact to hardness of soap?

    Hello all, I need your advice. I have read online about 92F coconut oil yielding harder bars than 76F bars. Is their truth to this? Part of me thinks it has to be true since the 92F oil is solid at room temp, but part of me thinks the saponification process may nullify this somehow. Plus...
  3. stanekster

    Lemon Poppy Soap Darkness

    Hi, This has a been a problem for some time now. Most people do not care (probably because they did not see soap when I was cutting it), but it bothers the heck out of me. So I make a soap and it turns out really nice. I cut it the next day to see glorious yellow color....thinking this time will...
  4. stanekster

    Rose Clay Color Change

    Hello All, I have a strange issue I am facing. In the past I did a few batches of grapefruit EO scented CP soap with Rose clay. My notes show that I used 2 teaspoons ppo. I did this several times over the last year. They came out very nice pink color that I really liked (see below). But now...
  5. stanekster

    How to Scale up with CP Milk Soap?

    Hi, We only make goat milk soap from our farm. We have more and more people buying and I am not quite sure how we can scale up successfully. I have two main goals: a) produce bigger batches to save time and to reduce time per batch. I am interested in trying to move up from our current 9 lb...
  6. stanekster

    Coconut soap sadly forgotten

    Hi all, I am a big dope. I made 100% coconut oil soap. And it looks like it came out amazing! But alas, I fell asleep and missed my cutting window. The bars are super hard. I tried to cut with a heated knife, but it basically crumbled. Since there does not seem to be a need for 2.5 lb bars of...
  7. stanekster

    Hello from NC

    Hello, I have been trolling on this site for over a year. I have been making small batches of soap for 2 + yrs and learned so much from your forum! I really appreciate all the info. Now I am moving on to bigger batches with friends and family demanding more of the soaps. I make mostly Goat milk...
  8. stanekster

    What am I messing up?

    I need some help figuring out what I am doing wrong with my goat milk soap. I have had several batches of soap over the last few months where this has occured. Some of them are using EO blends that have not changed.....nor a recipe that changed. It seems almost to randomly to occur. You can see...
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