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I have a recipe for a bastille soap with olive oil and coconut oil, and after learning how to use soap calc i decided i want to make my own bastille soap, but add a few extra carrier oils. If i reduced the olive oil from 80% to 70% and added 5 extra carrier oils at 2% each is that pointless?

Im wondering if anyone knows where in the UK or Europe where i can get yeast for skincare? The yeast might be called Faex, Beta Glucan Yeast, or its inci name as Saccharomyces Cerevisiae. Ive searched google and haven't found anywhere that you can buy it but there's plenty of articles on the...

Im looking for a speciality carrier oil for lip balm. So i was wondering if anyone knows where i can get barley oil from? Particularly in the UK or somewhere that ships internationally, and has MSDS files.

Ive started making lip balms and i made up my own recipe in grams, which gives me around 14 tubes or pots (if they are 5ml each). Ive read about the CPSR's. Your base needs to be 90% and the other 10% is for essential oils, colours, etc. You can have up to 6 variations, as long as your base is...

Im terrible at calculations and im finding it difficult trying to work out how much fragrance oil/essential oil to use too. I get that these oils have different usage rates, but im wanting to know how much im able to use in a full 1kg loaf mould of soap, as a maximum amount. And in 1 bar as a...

I wanted to ask a question about selling soap. In the future, if i sell cold process soap, the ingredients label is simple, especially if you are making bastille soap. Its 5 or 6 ingredients you list. I really like melt & pour too, its amazing for creativity, but on the stephenson website, the...

This was the 2nd batch of soap i ever made. It was a 3 layer Rasta Soap, using melt & pour, with a Hemp base. Green was Patchouli, Yellow was Lemongrass, and Red was Geranium. Because it was my first time making a layered soap, i didn't use any isopropyl alcohol, and the layers stuck well...

I just joined because i started making melt & pour soap. So far, ive made a few decent bars, and i have a million ideas, so ive invested in the basic equipment. I recently started looking at ingredients and found articles on sls & sles, so need to do more research on that. Eventually i want to...