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Soaped cool. OK after adding lye and stick blending. Added clay, still OK. Added one ounce FO -- curdled and separated. Stirred and stirred, no improvement. Warmed pan and used stick blender. Came together (sort of) so poured into mold. 24 hours later, goop. Recipe: 30% lard, 25% coconut...

Last night I made soap batch from a recipe of 580 grams of coconut and palm and olive oils and 193 grams of apricot kernel oil. The lye amount was 270.5 grams in 735 grams of water. 8% superfat. When I melted the oils, the liquid wasn't clear. It had what looked to me like tiny grains that...

This is a blue silicone mold with ribs on the outside (from Brambleberry). I'm not sure how best to cut bars. 1x5x2.5 seems an odd size to me. Any ideas about other options would be appreciated. TIA

I've apparently lost some of my gray cells since last year's soaping. I've made a hemp body bar for several years. This year I want to make additional bars so went to soapcalc to run the recipe. The recipe calls for a 10% super fat/discount. I entered this and the carrier oil amounts into...

The scented dusting powder I made won't shake out of its container. I put it into a round white plastic container that has a pop on lid with holes that close or open when the top is twisted. I used arrowroot, cornstarch and tapioca powder scented with essential oil. There are no oil...

Is there a guide or chart that lists equivalent oils that can be substituted for one another in CP soap recipes? E.G. Recipe calls for grapeseed oil. All I've got on hand is rice bran oil. Is there some sort of reference material that would provide the information necessary to make that...

The batch hasn't hardened at all since being poured into the silicon mold. I'd describe the thickness as between medium and heavy trace. Basically, a failed batch. I reviewed my notes and discovered I'd added four (4) ounces of grapeseed oil more than called for in the recipe. Recipe, as...

Here's another packaging question. I'm making dusting powder for holiday gifting. What is the best way to package this? Any vendor links appreciated. Thanks in advance for your opinions and advice.

I plan to create a few "blends" of oils and include them in my holiday gift packages. For example, I use rosehip and sweet almond oils for my face. I'd like to put the oils in an amber bottle that would make it easy for the user to dispense the small amount necessary for daily use. Which size...

Two poor results. Same recipe (Hemp Body Bar) with 1% difference in discount and different procedure for adding clay colorant. Both times, ran it through SoapCalc. Below are the two recipes and the soaping process I followed for each. After that are my questions. First recipe -- Dark Soap...

My lip balm recipe calls for 9 grams of candelilla and 8 grams of carnauba. I'd like to substitute beeswax for the candelilla. I have found information on a couple of sites that say when substituting candililla for beeswax to reduce the amount of wax by half as the candelilla has twice the...

This is how my soap looked after 48 hours in the molds. I just unwrapped it this morning. The droplets shown are only on the soap poured into wooden molds. Soap poured into a silcone mold and into a hard white plastic mold with individual cavities looks fine. Uploaded with ImageShack.us...

I'm in trouble. Pictures accompany this post. The pan contains coconut oil, palm oil, olive oil and shea butter. I put the pan on very low heat to melt the solids (coconut, palm and shea). The only out of the ordinary thing in this process is that the coconut oil was separated. (I posted...

Today I opened a bucket of coconut oil (76 degree) that has been sitting on the garage shelf for a year. It was separated -- solid chunks floating in liquid oil. It smelled fine. I heated some up on a small dish and it still smelled find. The heated oil hardened and looks like coconut oil...

Hello to all. I'm new at melt and pour and appreciate all the information everyone on this forum so generously shares. I would like to combine one pound of goats milk base and one pound of hemp oil base for use in a recipe that calls for two pound of hemp oil base. Can/should I do that...