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Thank you, I'll try without the salt :). Going to make it tommorrow and will post an update !

Hi All, just wondering if any of you wonderful people would be willing to take a look at my recipe and let me know what you think before I dedicate precious oils to making it. Any pros and cons that jump out at you? Thanks in advance ! 40% OO 20% CO 10% Canola 5% Castor 13% Shea butter 12%...

Thank you ever so much for such a detailed and helpful reply, Marsi. I want to reach through the screen and hug you ! :)

Thank you, Marsi ! Can you tell me what you think of the following recipe, please ? I tried this soap some time back and absolutely loved it, I guess I'm trying to create something similar. Thanks again :) With that I mean it looks like they use mostly coconut oil in there..

Here it is :). It's been three weeks now, I will wait one to three more weeks to have more of a final opinion, just wondering if the shea butter will help with that in the finished result..

Hello everyone Would anyone mind taking a look at my recipe, please and letting me know what you think ? I made the recipe (without the shea butter) a few weeks ago. It's still leaving my face dry/tight but way less than when I first tried it. Will the addition of shea butter help? Thank you...

Thank you, Marsi ! :)

Hello Everyone I bought a box of essential oils today that contains one called Litsea Citrata. I can't find a lot of information about it online but have found lots about Litsea Cubena. Are they the same? Thank you in advance for any info. :)

Super, thanks !

Thank you for the info !

Hi everyone, me again (so much to learn, so little time :)!) I thought it best to post this question separately. My partner, and some of his male friends, have said that they don't like their skin to feel soft and smooth after using soap. My partner has tried one of my trial soaps using mostly...

Hi everyone ! I'd like to try out a couple of recipes using sea salt.. 72% olive oil 18% coconut oil and also 72% coconut oil 18% olive oil. I'd like to add sea salt to both. and will also be adding clay. I understand that salt should be added to the lye water (before or after the lye?) but I...

Thanks, I thought that 6 weeks was really maximum, I didn't know waiting even longer could be even more beneficial ! When you say at 6 months it could be DOSsy, does that mean that the DOS would start to show up after all that time ? I'm going to sell the soap, I would hate for someone to not...

Thanks for the reply and the advice ! I just had a quick look at the basic trinity of oils and saw that after tweaking you've added shea/mango butter as part of the base oils. I saw elsewhere (maybe here on SMF, I can't remember) that butters should be added at trace and not as part of the base...

Ok, thanks. I was worrying myself thinking maybe it wasn't dry skin but a reaction to the lye ! I'll wait a few more weeks and test again :). 50% coco, 40% olive and 10% canola. 2% ES's and a little clay...

Hi Everyone I made a trial soap a week ago (CP) after researching a recipe for a while. It has 50% coconut oil (20 SF), 33% lye solution. I love how the soap has turned out so far, the colour, how hard it is already, the smell. After cutting the soap in half last night I used it on my face and...