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Thank you very much! it was very informative

Hi Im using a new mold for my HP soap, my recipe has 38% of water. I try to predict what will be the wait loss and if and how much the soap will shrink during curing time. Somebody knows?

Thanks you all for the information, I had some hope that maybe the IFRA "allowd" more than 3%

I saw that there is a difference in the recommended amount of EO in the EOCALC web for the cold process soap and the hot process soap even if they are the same category, category 9. for the cold process, they recommended up to 5% and for the hot process up to 3%. somebody knows why?

Thank you! Its look grate!!!

Thank you, that is a good idea. Do you know other programs that can be use better with excel?

I was trying to contact someone in the "soap calc" program, but I didn't find any contact details...so I will ask my question here, and if somebody has some contact information that also is great. I want to know if it's possible to see the recipe on an excel file. It will be helpful for me to...

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For the lather you can also use honey, and a lot of times I put 10% castor oil and it make beautiful lather

Like u saied, I think that it's not an issue when we are taking about wash off products

I like the earl gray cent butvi dont want to spend money on EO that fade fast

Ok, the lemongrass i have, so for sure i will try also the litsea.

Hi I want to expand my EO variety. I want to have citrus smells but I try to avoid: orange, grapefruit, and lemon because in my experience they are not long-lasting in soap. I thought of bergamot and petitgrain as an option. but I don't know if they are long-lasting and if they are similar to...

I don't use palm oil or fats from animals in my formula. so I have to use butter. I usually use 20% shea butter and 10% cocoa butter in HP and I'm very happy with the result

if you put a low percentage of coconut oil in your soap, how do you succeed to balance your hard oils and soft oils (40% soft oil, 60% hard oil%). I do understand its not a must, but I want a balanced soap bar

maybe you can make the lye solution with her because its basic and important to learn how to do it and not being intimidated by it

I have doubts how much precentge of coconut oil to put in my face bars. it's going to be a charcoal face bar, in the green clay bars I put 25% of coconut oil and it was ok, but ussuly I recommend it to people with more oily skin. but I think that maybe 20% will be enough, because the skin of...

I think that maybe on the heat of the hp some of the vitamins that are in the oils are ruined. I personally prefer the hp, and I think that it's not that crucial, the vitamins, because anyway, the soap does not remain on the skin. but I see that sometimes people who marketing their cp soap use...

lately, I hear some opinions that cp is better than hp because it keeps all the vitamins of the oils. What do you think about it??