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10 tablespoons of (bruised) juniper berries 30 cardamom pods 1 tablespoon dried rose petals 5 teaspoons coriander seeds peel from 1 lemon a good pinch of lavage seed 3L of vodka at 40% ABV. Infuse for as long as you wish. 2 days is adequate. 2 weeks is also pallatable. It does get better with...

I have no desire to make meltable soap, but I've just read: https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/how-do-i-rebatch-african-black-soap-recipes-please.25547/ Questions, questions!! Does this mean our hard bard soap simply "melts"? I thought it might burn? I have some which I added far to...

I've posted a couple of recipes after they've gone badly and a couple of you good folks have said "post them before you make them for comments." So here goes: 250g pork tallow 150g coconut oil 130g olive oil 20g lavender oil 20g beeswax 2 tsp mica colouring 88g NaOH 235g H2O Soapee says...

Hi. Me again. :-| Couple of batches into my sop making "career" now. I've 3D printed a flexible mould to try and emboss a logo on my bars. One teency problem I predict: each time I've poured my soap into my mound, it's gelled very very quickly. I do not think it will stay liquid long enough to...

I'm looking for two beginner recipes, please. I hope they'd be NaOH-based (as that's what I have). Both should be hard soaps and both should be beginners recipes! (Did I already say that?) One is for a transparent or translucent soap. One is for a vegetable oil based soap. All my soap to...

Considering the number of words that have been reintroduced to English recently, or have been made more common, or imported from elsewhere. Here in the UK, for example, I believe "furlough" was an uncommon term until the pandemic. As a Software Engineer, I'm quite happy with "algorithms" but now...

Facebook's down and Twitter didn't want me. This is my new favourite place to come and hang. This must be what middle-age feels like.

Does everyone have an airing cupboard which looks like this within their first week of soapmaking?

I have some Grapefruit Oil. I read with interest your advice on dilution rates for soaps. I read with care the manufacturer's dilution rates for IFRA Class 9A (soaps) dilution (unrestricted). I read with care the manufacturer's dilution rates for IFRA Class 3A,B,C (shaving type products)...

You know the way teenagers develop a certain ... aroma? Even if they wash twice a day, they still have teenager smell? Clearly not everyone can detect it (or there'd surely be a remedy) but I can. Which means others can. Anyway, can anyone recommend a recipe for (or an additive to) a bar soap...

Basically, I want to make a 3D printed custom mould Our recipes are necessarily by given mass. Clearly, a mould would be made for a specific end volume. Some of our ingredients dissolve in others, evaporate, have different densities... Is there a quick means to calculate the volume of soap...

For a particular quantity of "other ingredients" in cold process bar soap, how much essential oil should be added? I'm 100% certain it differs on a bunch of both objective and subjective stuff like: what the "other ingredients" are what the essential oil is personal taste ...but what would be...

Taking on board as many lessons as I can from an over-soft, under whisked first stab and an seriously over-lyed second batch, I'm still striving for a plain bar soap recipe containing simple stuff which folk have under the kitchen sink. One lesson is that it does no harm to run a recipe by you...

Not wanting to sacrifice too much time, or material, I've dived straight in. The only things I know about cold process soapmaking: - add the lye to the water as it is massively exothermic - you need oil and lye in very precise proportions I looked at some commonly used oils and settled on a...

Hi from Midlands, UK. Totally new to soap making. I looked around me one afternoon and realised that drawing in from other hobbies such as colourants and moulds for making turned pen blanks, essences and herbs for bathtub gin, I have almost everything around me to make some soap! I bought some...