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Personally, lye really bothers me so I wear a painter's mask from the time I make the lye solution to after my dishes are done. A lot of people who make a lot of soap I notice the lye ends up slowly deteriorating their vocal chords and they sound more and more raspy and 'old' sounding. Listen to...

For the Cinnamon Cocoa, I am of the same opinion that it was a horrible smell. I made it with a white local beer and it came out smelling... like... idk... gross.

I used cold-process and superfatted it at 5%. If it bothers you to answer me, feel free not to. I'm new to this, yes, but you're not repping the camaraderie of this forum which I have so enjoyed at this point by giving me attitude. The best teachers are patient with their students.

Recently I tried BB's Frosted Fir FO and I just wanted to tell everyone that's it's absolutely horrendous, like I don't believe anyone would like it. I mean, mayyybe it's just me but oh geez, no, just no.

Hi y'all! I have a question. I've made around 7 batches and I've been using tallow for around 60-90% of my soaps. Most of them were hard to very hard and everything was great. Then. Duh duh duh. I started using lard and I find that my soaps are really oily when I unmold and cut them. Is it...

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This is my fifth soap, cold process, used BB's Raspberry Jam. Very satisfied.

Thanks for your replies! I'm quite new at soapmaking but I've made a couple batches and I like using animal products and I also like experimenting myself but it sounds like it's pretty unanimous that it's not the best fat to use. Concerning the German cuisine, I've never really tried. Do you eat...

Hello, soapers, I'm new. I bought some duck lard but it has salt and mysterious 'spices' in it. Is it ok to use like that. Does it change the saponification value? What does salt do in the soap? Thanks for the feedback!