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@penelopejane Thanks for shattering my illusions about my first soap batch. I was thinking a month more and it would be good to use. I really have to wait a year and it makes sense considering the high percentage of olive oil I used. A twelve week cure also sounds a bit too long so I am...

@earlene Thanks a ton for the detailed explanation. It really helped clear a lot of my doubts and helped me understand the factors on which the hardness and longevity (I now know are two different characteristics) depend upon. I used the lye calculator you linked to and checked the longevity...

Thanks lsg. I checked out other threads and most of them use soy wax. I am not really keen on using soy wax. Also, thanks for pointing out that my oleic number was high. What I did was reduced the OO to 25% and replaced sweet almond oil with a lighter sunflower oil. I had to up my shea butter by...

Hi Experienced Soapers, I am new to soap-making and this is my second batch of soap. My first batch of soap was 95% OO and 5% CO. After a 4 week cure, the soap turned out to be reasonably hard, conditioning and lathery, but I did not like the slime and the gel that accumulates on the soap. It...