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Hi, Sorry if its a silly question. I came across this recipe in a website. They have listed all their ingredients in percentages. How to find out the total oil portion alone for a total of 100% as we usually do? Why do people list the ingredients like this? Palm Oil 29.86%, Coconut Oil 17.06%...

Hello! I hope everyone is doing well. I'm excited to try out a new recipe, and I've decided to experiment with the super-fat content by setting it at 10%. However, I'm unsure if this percentage is adequate or if I should consider increasing it for better results. I understand that this may not...

Hi.. As I love experimenting I would like to try the following recipe. I've already made a 100% coconut oil soap with 20% superfat and love it. As it dissolves very quickly, I came up with the following recipe. I wanted to try a soap batch using only cold pressed(not chemically treated) oils and...

Hi seniors..I've been soaping for the past 3 years and started selling this year. So far no complaints from customers and all going good. I'm using olive(pomace), RBD palmolein, coconut (cold pressed), castor(cold pressed), approx 10% of butters(Kokum & Shea) in my recipes. I made a test batch...

Hai.. I would like to try a batch of cp soap using soy wax. Thank you so much @KiwiMoose and @Zany_in_CO for the information that you've provided regarding soy wax usage and all the threads were really interesting. Has anyone from India tried soy wax in their cp soaps? Veda oils provide soy wax...

Hi, Do anyone from India know a supplier who sells folded EOs like sweet orange and lemon (5 fold or 10 fold) and Litsea Cubeba (May Chang) Essential Oil?? Moksha sells May chang but it's too costly.

I would like to do an EO blend for my neem cp soap using rosemary, lemongrass and spearmint..I would like to use less rosemary and increase the other two EOs. I calculated my own blend in eocalc but it's getting indicated in red. I tried the percentage as follows: 15 rosemary, 25 spearmint, 60...

Hi, I made a 1000g batch of carrot turmeric soap yesterday. I made my lye solution and added sodium lactate after the solution reached room temperature( used SL for the 1st time). I substituted half of the liquid portion with carrot juice and added the juice after emulsion. I used 15 drops of...

Hi, I'm planning to make a mild baby soap. Please do suggest if this recipe would be fine?? Olive oil pomace - 80% Castor oil - 8% Shea butter - 7% Cocoa butter - 5% Superfat - 7% or 8% Cure time of almost 3 to 6 months is better I guess. Which EO can be added?? Many suggested Lavender EO in...

Hi, I'm from India and after reading a lot of articles on making100 percent coconut oil soap with 20% superfat, I tried that. I used home made coconut milk as a replacement for water. After 45 days of cure, I started using the soap. The lather was extremely good and felt really happy. But 10...

Hello everyone, I just wanted to know if lye concentration and longevity are inter-related. Suppose if a soap is made with three different lye concentrations: 30%, 33% and 37% and all the three are cured for 6 weeks, how will the outcome be? Will all the soaps have the same longevity or will...

Hi, Is it better to freeze the carrot juice and make the lye solution or add carrot juice at trace?? Which works best to get orange colour??? How much juice to add incase if I'm adding at trace?? Sorry for asking too many questions. I'm planning to make a carrot soap and wish to have a natural...

Hi, I am a new soap maker from India and have made 6 batches of soap so far and learning a lot each time I make soap from the forum mainly. I would like to thank each and everyone in this forum for sharing your experience. Now the problem is I feel all my soaps to be too drying. I used 30% CO...

Hai, I would like to make a blend of Litsea and Lemon essential oils but I don't know where to buy. Unfortunately the place where I buy my essential oils don't sell litsea. Have anyone in India used Litsea in your soaps??

Hello everyone, I'm a new soap maker. I've made few batches of soaps and got positive reviews from my friends and family members. I'm planning to start a business and would like to make all natural soaps using cold pressed oils(unrefined): olive, coconut, castor, sesame, sweet almond...

I'm a new soap maker and I'm planning to make a CP soap with carrot puree and turmeric powder. I would like to add Turmeric essential oil in it but I don't find the scent very appealing. What eo blends well with Turmeric EO. Kindly give your valuable suggestions.

Hello, Can I use rice bran oil as a replacement for sweet almond oil in cp soaps? Will that make a huge difference?