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Hi! I was wondering if there is any good recipe of CP soap that I can try for my 18mo baby. I have seen milk thistle&honey soap but not sure how much ingredients to use and how to make it. Any ingredients I should avoid? He has dryish skin due to the cold weather so would love to make something...

Totally! After your post I have done some reading on fatty acid profiles and sounds like I do have plenty of oleic acid which has moisturizing property but I do agree I could use some extra hardness. What do you think of this recipe?

Both. First, I used your formula and then tested it in a calculator. Both showed around the same amount of liquid: 8.9 and 8.88oz. For actual soap making of course I will use the calculator to get the decimals to get as close to the perfect formula as possible.

thanks for being so patient! Ok to get 33% of lye conc I figured I need to use 8.9 oz of water. I think...

So sounds like I need to use about 5.2oz of lye then. Thank you so much!

Thank you! I did CP/OP and the circle seems a bit less obvious. Now I have another issue - soda ash lol))) but only on half of my bathc :rolleyes: I agree gel gives more vibrant colors but for some reason I prefer more pastel colors. I also feel like gel makes the white color more yellowish...

I seem to never get either fully gelled batch or avoid gel altogether. So I followed someone’s advice in this forum yesterday and after pouring, put my batch in the garage for the night. It was around 30F I think. I cut it just now and it still partially gelled:( I did spend about 10 minutes...

Hi, I am very new to soap making. I made a few batches for the last two years. This season I made Christmas spice soap and sold about 50 bars for the first time! I had no idea it would go so well. Now I want to make it my side business but Iwant to make sure I am doing it legally. I have done...

I actually like the new faded pink more than the bright pink 😀