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    Acids in cp soap

    Hiii all! I’ve been researching into the acids made up in soap, oleic, palmitic etc. I’m hoping someone can confirm whether or not I’m correct in thinking a soap with a higher linoleic acid and lower oleic value is better suited to the face? And Oleic better for the body? Or am I talking...
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    Preservatives and calculations

    Hi all, so I am trying to understand how to formulate my own recipes and I would like to start as I mean to go on using percentages so it’s easily scaled. Now I have seen preservatives such as Preservative Eco that’s used at 1%. So say my recipe is 100% with sugar, oils, fragrance... do I...
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    Preservatives

    Hi all, so I have been reading and reading about preservatives. I was planning to keep anything like that out of my products when I come sell them but now I feel I could be doing more harm than good by doing so. I have come across that Benzyl alcohol and Dehydroacetic acid are considered fine...
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    Using milk and yoghurt in cp/hp soap - temperature

    Hi all! I was just wondering if anybody can clarify whether soap needs to be a certain temperature when adding milk or yoghurt in both cp and hp, if so what should it be and at what point during the process should I add them? I have seen so many wonderful reviews on adding this but worried I’m...
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    Making pure glycerin

    Hi everyone! First time posting and I’m not sure if it’s even in the right place! Lol apologies if I am! I am relatively new to soap making but I am looking to extract pure glycerin from soap, like the kind of glycerin you buy to make your own glycerin soap from scratch mixed with alcohol etc...
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