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Can't help you there. I make plain soap. I get those 2 oils from Davis trading! I'm not into all the crazy stuff people do with their soaps on here. Too darn expensive! and I can't smell so kinda pointless for me. My soap is absolutely lovely as it is. (proudly smug!) Where you at?

35% lye concentration. 1050g ooP 450g co 400g water 212g lye I do use pomace OO now, but the first few batches were regular. I couldnt tell the difference. I just poked an old bar from about 4 months ago and could still make a mark - with a lot of pressure. and the same with a month old...

Well, hello! I'm in NZ too. I make OO70% +CO30% and find it quite soft. I always though OO was a soft bar and that's why you put a bit of CO in. So I have no idea why everyone is now saying it's a hard bar. You got me flumixed!

I gave away my fuglies to get rid of them more than anything and then people asked for more. Some want a dozen bars each at a time! and several others get a couple at a time. and demand to pay for it, too. Those who have never mentioned it again - Pft! hope they get a rash, hahaha. You...

Ah, ha! I was under the mistaken impression you could bung salt in any soap recipe! I shall do a 100% co one instead. Thanks

It wasn't 'solid lather' It were scum! Sort of like curdledness?

I made my regular 70% olive and 30% coconut soap and threw in 50% total weight of table salt at trace. I like the riverstone effect but the lather?! Gross. It bubbles up all nice but then turns instantly to what can only be described as scum. I wouldn't even give this away.

Ah, so you can make huge blocks, then. I've been reading how you should always keep it small and was'nt impressed. 8{ My mold is a cube but I only fill it up on bar high. Now I shall quadruple my recipe and bung it all in my big mold! Heeeheee heeee!

I just come on here to see what 'bits' people were putting in. I tried oatmeal, which I'd whizzed up a bit first and nearly drew blood! I would think punky seeds would be the same - But I love the idea of ground almonds (May I pinch that idea?) I wonder if it's the husky part that makes it...

OK, so I just put my standard recipe in soap calc with a 40% lye conc. and it came out at 21.2% of water to oils instead of the usual 38% that soapcalc starts up with. And a big red caution message ! My soap comes out just fine at 38% so I wont fiddle with it. (done enough of that!) But...

It seems to be a standard 6oz - 1pound oil. But where did that come from? Just curious really.

Hi thanks. I poked 14% into soap calc and the lye came out to 140.4g and the other figures were within acceptable ranges. so when I give some of it away I can call it super moisturising nourishing bar or some such BS! It was 70% olive oil and 30% coconut oil (=1kg) but it's fractionated co...

I've been searching old posts for an hour and can't find anything. I used the wrong amount of lye 141g instead of 155g (don't know ounces sorry) the soap is 2 days old now and still soft as. Sooo... A) will it be usable? B) how do I fix it? can I melt it and add more dissolved in a wee...

OK tried 100% CO and it was exactly the same as a beef fat bar and an Olive oil/CO and Palmoil bar - ie YUK! So I give up on shampoo bars! (Not really - I'll keep reading..)

aren't we all different! The soap I'm trying out makes my hair so manky and greasy! I was going to add lots of coconut oil to help dry it out. My hair got a bit dmamged yearly this year with colour stripping and a perm so I'd been ladelling on the conditioner, but have stopped doing that...

Fisrt name? Tracey Location? New Zealand Favorite food? Icecream Favorite hobbie? crochet Favorite movie? Jeez! that's like picking out ONE kind of icecream! I like foreign movies, indy/arthouse and old movies - anything a bit interesting.

How did that go? I thought co was too harsh on it's own? I've been trying to find out a good ratio. I'd be interesting in hearing what it was like - saves me mucking up a batch! ta.

yep, that's what I had done. It's the same pic I use all over the place and I have it on Gravatar too. Ok I see now, it's too many KB. 9 is very very small! I'll pick a gallery one instead. I don't like being pic less! Thanks

Nope. OK How do I put an avatar on?

Dnag it didn't work! Is it there now?