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Hello, looking in the forum I found loads of threads about salt in soap, whether it is used for Salt Bars, Soleseife (Brine Bars?) or simply as an additive, both in solid and brine form. So, what I'd like to know is what are the pros and cons of each product? How and why do you choose to make...

Hi everyone, I've come here again after my first real fail in making a hot process batch of soap. I wanted to test lemon juice in soap so I prepared a small amount of olive oil, lard and juice, weighed my lye and mixed them together as usual. I thought everything was fine but after few minutes I...

Hello everyone, By chance, I found an ancient article about a laundry soap to use in hard water. What was really surprising is that that soap was made with corn meal instead of oils or fats! I've tried searching more information but I couldn't find any. I wonder how could corn meal react with...

Hello, after having made some "simple" bars, I'm thinking about trying with a more complex recipe. Because of my passion for forest and plants, I'm very attracted by Rosin soap and I'd like to give it a try. For now, I'm just thinking and reading about it, so I searched for older threads in this...

Hi, I'm thinking about trying a new bar soap and adding sugar to it to improve the lather. So, my first question is: is it worth it? Does it really better tha amount of foam produced or is it simply a legend? What are your experiences? And obviously the second question is: any tips for trying...

Hi, last month I tried making to soap bar with the hot process. I made them with fats that I had in my house, which were olive oil (70 %) and lard (30 %) and no fragranves or essential oils. I don't expect my soap to produce much lather or to smell very fine, but at the moment here is difficult...

Hello, I was wandering around in the forum and I came across African Black Soap. I tried to learn more but I see that ther's a bit of confusion in the net about how to make it. Someone says you must stricly use ashes from some species of African plants, others swear you can get the same result...

Hello everyone, as I said in the introduction, I’m new to soap making practise but I’m very interested in the topic. As many beginners, I originally wanted to try wood ash lye soap-making. After some failed experiments I decided to use NaOH, and things begin to go really better. But I’ve...

Hi everyone, I'm Alessandro from Monza, in Italy. I'm new to soap making and for now I only made some few experiments with the hot process. But I'm interested both in the practical and in the theorethical aspects of soap. I'm sure that here I will find many answer to my question. I take the...