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Hi all! I live in Europe, and am a little confused about how to write out recipes to get them safety certified (here, you can't even gift soap legally without them being certified by a lab). I have to list ALL ingredients as % of mass. So I started listing my usual oil rates, etc ... But then I...

Hey! I have a well-established recipe I use in almost all my soaps which I've never had issues with. For some reason, my last 3 batches - same recipe as always, and FOs I've used before without problems - have turned to soap on a stick, leaving me to frantically shovel blobs of chunky mass into...

Hello! I just cut a loaf onto bars and noticed some spots I'm unsure of. I cut the loaf a little soon, it's been about 24 hours. The trace seemed perfectly normal when I poured; I did add more clay after since it wasn't the colour I wanted yet, and I didn't dissolve it in powder first so there...

Hello! I'm wondering a bit about how different calculators work. I basically always use Soap Calc, but I'm located in a different country and here nearly all soap makers use a different calculator. The characteristics it shows you are a little different so I wanted to try it out, as that one...

I've been lucky so far and the first 4 soaps I made turned out really well. A wee bit of soda ash on the first one, and some small cosmetic imperfections due to difficulty fully blending TD in the third one, but otherwise really great batches. I always used EOs so far, and today I tried my...

Hello! I've made a few batches of soap now and I've been lucky they've all turned out quite well so far. But up till now I always 'force' gel phase. I'm using citrus essential oils this time and I read in a lot of places that they may stick better if you avoid gel phase, for example by putting...