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Thank you I only do hot process soaps and Melt and pour with my grandchildren. Thank you for the compliment.

I find that hard to believe, I bet your soaps are gorgeous with all of your know how! Thanks for your feedback! I love Hot Process, today I’m trying a watermelon style soap. Even though I’m not really a fan of food looking soap or glitter etc. But my grandkids asked for it, so here I go..lol

I didn’t know how to directly message you. I wanted to thank you for the great advice. I got much more fluid results this time. Thank you

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Welcome! So much good information here. Are you making cold process or hot process? Regardless, you came the right place.

I also loved working with madder root powder and spinach. Beautiful results in the hot process soaps. Thank you for the suggestion of changing default to lye concentration it really helped a lot.

This is a very good article. I also played with the recipes to see the different water amounts when changing to concentration. I am understanding better.

Thank you, I will do this next time. Should I keep it at 38% or do you suggest 25% concentration too? Wouldn’t that lower water? I have been reading and trying to understand and I know eventually it will all click. So, I just keep asking questions till it does. 😊

Really Beautiful!

I just love HP myself. I love the rustic look as well.

I do everything warm as well. But I obviously was deducting way too much. Thank you for sharing what works for you. I love the pointers and advice. 😊 Beautiful soaps! I love them. I am a bit confused about percentages water to lye but not the oils. I always keep the top part the same and I...

I read vinegar helps with fluidity in HP. But I used white wine vinegar which turned my soaps brown. The soaps are performing very well. The rest are curing. I did the yellow bars without vinegar and they were not as fluid. But yes, it increases your super fat and decreases the lye strength. I...

I will change the concentration and not subtract from the batch water. I try not to stir it after the trace and let it volcano. Thats when I stir to calm it down. So, if you stir a lot you should go to a 30%? Thank you so much for the feedback. I sure need it there is so much to learn. Boy do I...

I’m not discouraged just being truthful. You can’t win them all. I could not wait to start today. I have been making HP soaps and working on fluidity but it’s getting worse. I suspect I am removing too much water to mix with mica’s from the lye water. I left more than the lyes weight in water...

I think your daughter is on to something. Keeping it simple seems to the best for our sanity alone! Less is more sometimes. The vinegar definitely helped with fluidity. I will buy some apple cider vinegar for next time. Thank you for your kind words.

I am laughing at how cute your dog is and not those beautiful soaps!

I enjoy candles and paint with watercolors, acrylic as well. I love being creative and creating gifts with thought and usefulness for family and friends. What else do you create?

Really beautiful!

I used Trader Joe’s white wine vinegar and it made my lye blood red! I used it still because I was all in at that point. I added Orange clove fragrance from nurture soaps. I used the amount the soap calculator gave me. I made a lemon fragrance bar the next batch with no vinegar in my lye. It...