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We have a ton of moisturizer in our house, and I’m the only one that uses it (house full of boys). I‘ll never finish it, and we are always being gifted more… is there a recipe out there for making it into soap? I imagine it will be hit and miss because every moisturizer is different. Last...

Hello! Once upon a time, I bought way too many Lush massage bars at various 2-for-1 Boxing Day sales… and they don’t melt or massage well, especially in this cold country! I don’t want to waste the lovely scent, or all that cocoa and shea butter, so I’ve been experimenting with making them...

I need (pure) sodium stearate for one of my recipes - a recipe which does not go through saponification. Unfortunately sodium stearate is hard to find in Europe, I'm only seeing it sold at great expense from large chemical companies. However, stearic acid is easy to find here, and when combined...

Over here in NL, grocery stores sell a version of beef tallow called "Blanc de Boeuf" or "Ossewit" which is meant for deep frying. It's very white and very nice to use in soap. Unfortunately one of the ingredients is a "natural aroma" which is distinctively BEEFY. I'm assuming the original...

We've got cheese, clogs, tulips, tons of rain, and very hard water! I confess I've run across this forum for years as I've researched soapmaking, and I've decided it's finally time to join and contribute! Altogether, I've been making soap for about ten years. Almost all laundry products and...

I'd like to make some sodium citrate to use as a chelator. Do any of ye chemistry-minded folks know the proportions of sodium carbonate to citric acid to form sodium citrate, and what the final weight of the result might be? Some background info: over here in NL, we have very hard water, so I...