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Thanks for the tips, I could get shea butter, just not now with the lock down. The only supplier I found was in another city and the military has stopped movement of non-essentials. Right now I can get: - Olive oil - Sunflower oil - Sweet almond oil - coconut oil -castor oil I didn't think to...

So would it be better to go with 5% superfat? Is three months of cure time too low for these soaps? I don't have access to animal fats, lard, especially pig lard, does not exist. The best I can do it get a little beeswax but more than likely I would have to purify it from honey comb since the...

Thanks, I am using the SoapCalc mentioned here make my first recipes. I did find the percentage of each fatty acid easily, what I meant was it seems each fatty acid reacts with lye to form a different sodium salt or soap with slightly different properties. I was hoping to find the properties of...

I figured, I guess I was just surprised by how basic the final product will be. I thought it would be silly to add acid, you'd just have fats...but what about the curing process? Is that just allow the rest of the lye to react with fats on top of water evaporating? If so, would a longer curing...

Thanks for the links, I didn't know which calculator to trust. I understand your points, the issue for me is while I have found lots of information online and the reaction is straight forward I didn't feel like there was enough information in terms of what can affect the behaviour of the soap...

Hello all, I am a high school science teacher living in Morocco and I want to start making my own soap. Here we have lots of different ingredients on hand cheaper than most and the commercial products tend to be really pricey by comparison, so that and the fact that most soap irritates my skin...