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  1. Jor224

    Fatty acid profiles

    All of my soap were sold after 1-2 week curing. I kept one for bath, and it last for 1 month now. No DOS happened so far.
  2. Jor224

    Fatty acid profiles

    I've been wondering on the same question as well and I found this thread. Nice input. Meanwhile in my experiment, I currently settled at soap with linoleic around 20-30%, and lauric and myristic combined does not reach 10%. I market my soap soap sensitive skin, so I'm looking for formula that...
  3. Jor224

    Pine oil as pine tar substitute

    Thank you. I'll stick on differentiating my product based on the aroma and the soap cleansing power.
  4. Jor224

    Pine oil as pine tar substitute

    "Furthermore, there are no guarantees any "healing properties" will survive in soap due to exposure to NaOH during saponification and also the high pH of soap even after it is made. " does this apply to pine tar also?
  5. Jor224

    Pine oil as pine tar substitute

    Hi, I'm looking to make pine based soap to treat eczema. In my country Indonesia, pine tar is rare and expensive while pine essential oil is plenty and cheap, often used as ingredient to floor cleaner. I read that pine essential oil also has skin healing property, just as the pine tar, however I...
  6. Jor224

    Thickening problem again - salt curve and distilled water

    Hi, update. This time I'm using EVOO. it won't thicken, instead when I added salt, it quickly formed paste and separated with soap water. See picture for detail. I heated them on stove without boiling them. They were mixed, but would not thickened. So far my salt has reached 20 grams for 770...
  7. Jor224

    Thickening problem again - salt curve and distilled water

    So I want to give update on my experiments. It works after three times trying. First and second try was with pomace and evoo, the method remains the same except for replacing immersion blender with whisk, and I waited around 1-2 hours everytime I add salt. It doesn't work. The third time worked...
  8. Jor224

    Uughh, what went wrong?

    Hi Jen, looking great! Is it watery or thickened? Is the bottle normal pump of foam pump?
  9. Jor224

    The 4-letter game

    Never accept random documents BRAY
  10. Jor224

    Thickening problem again - salt curve and distilled water

    Thanks for the responses, I'll continue from this thread for same topic. The salt usage rules has many references, one say 50% oleic and above, other says as long as no coconut is fine. @Zany_in_CO criteria seems to be another different category. For now I'll follow yours. I'll stick to whisk...
  11. Jor224

    homemade distilled water not worth it?

    My water TDS score is 27mg/liter. Is that recommended for soap making, all the way to thickening with salt?
  12. Jor224

    Thickening problem again - salt curve and distilled water

    Hi, for those who are familiar with me, yes it's thickening issue again. Quick note on what I've done so far: 1. soap paste, 70% extra virgin olive and 30% coco. 2. 40% lye solution. 3. 1% superfat. 4. Let the soap paste sit for 2 days, passed zap test. 5. Dilute them in warm water, around...
  13. Jor224

    Failure to thicken olive soap with salt

    Yes, 0.5% is what I added each time. If my liquid is 1000gr, I added 5 grams of salt, stirred, and wait around few minutes, sometimes overnight. So by your suggestion, I should start with 1-2 grams of salt for 1000gr liquid soap? How about the stirring part, should I avoid making foam while...
  14. Jor224

    Failure to thicken olive soap with salt

    In all my trials to thicken soap, I failed many times. 1. My soap paste was dominated by olive/pomace olive, with oleic score around 45-50%. 2. I'm using distilled water. 3. My soap paste was sitting for around 1 day, passed zap test. 4. I added my salt little by little, around 0.5% total liquid...
  15. Jor224

    Castile = green paste?

    Hi all, So I tried making liquid soap using extra virgin olive oil by BORGES, this is my first time using this and I expected brown-amber coloured paste. Instead I got green paste like the picture. Does extra virgin olive oil always give this result? The videos of castile soap online always...
  16. Jor224

    Thickening large batch

    So I tried more 25% salt water solution, it didn't work. It's still watery, and after I poured them on clear container, it forms separation just like the attached picture. Curdled at top and clear at bottom. I reviewed what I did differently, there were three things. Maybe you and others with...
  17. Jor224

    Thickening large batch

    Hi, I made liquid soap, cold process, 6:3:1 pomace: coconut: palm, thicken with salt at 3% of soap water weight. The salt itself was dilluted in water as 25% salt water. It only took 1-2 min of stirring before it went thicker. It ended up good, thick, rather cloudy, and lather well. It was a...
  18. Jor224

    Uughh, what went wrong?

    5 hours of cooking? I think that's too much. I've never tried hot process, but read a book on hot process in the past, it was around 30 mins - 2 hours. In cold process, with pre-heated oil and warm lye water, you can get full saponification for dominantly olive oil soap paste in 1 day.
  19. Jor224

    Question on full saponification

    By zap, you mean something like tingling sensation? I tried that, tasted plain and slightly slippery, no tingling sensation. However, my paste is 60% pomace olive oil, I have in mind that it's full saponification would be transluscent and rather hard, like dried tree sap. So with zap test...
  20. Jor224

    Question on full saponification

    Hi, My liquid soap paste, consist of 60% pomace olive oil, 30% coconut oil, 10% palm oil, has been saponified for 1.5 day, as shown in the picture. It was still soft, like fluffy mashed potato. 1. How do I know if it has been fully saponified? How will the hardness be? 2. Does full...
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