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In Cold Processed soaps I work mainly with coconut milk and this is the way I do it. It is very easy and no worries about chilling milk or working with cold temps. I work at room temperature, the lye goes with water, the milk in the oils just before I add the lye water and they whole process...

When I use my infused herbal oils in my soaps I always hot process the soap and add the infused oils after the cook is finished. I believe they make a difference based on my own personal experience and the feedback that I have received from testers that only know to talk about my "white" and...

I don't expect the dehumidifier to pull moisture out of the box, just the environment that the boxes are stored in. I don't use air tight plastic, I use cardboard, and cardboard isn't air or moisture tight.

After I cut my soap it sits on a paper towel on a tray, then is moved into a cardboard box with a silicone packet and dated/labeled and stored on shelves in my basement with a dehumidifier. I could never cure them open on a shelf, the fragrances would make me nuts and possibly ill.

I don't look at my formula as "oils to replace palm" so much as formulate a recipe without it. My daughter gave me strict parameters for a vegan soap and after a few bumps I have formulated a hard bar that has lovely lather, gets you clean and leaves even my skin feeling nice with a 8%...

I am a Potter and I make oil warmers in stoneware. Several years ago I tested a bunch of oil mixtures to be able to sell along side my oil warmers. Nothing worked for me. I used DPG and fragrance oil, I used carrier oils, even mineral oil. The tealights heated the mixture and the smell from...

Essential oils are not designed to survive the combustion of a candle. While some are used in the formulations of fragrance oils it is best to use fragrances designed for candles for candles and if you want to use essential oils for aromatherapy or scent, to use a steam distillation or tealight...

Will you consider hot process? I personally love cocoa butter soaps and have made quite a few formulations over the years. I also know from personal use that with cocoa butter, a lot doesn't have to be used to be able to feel the difference. When I use it in a cold process formulation (or the...

Yes, first they dry completely then they are fired to a low temperature (called a bisque fire) and then glazed and then high fired in a glaze fire.

I'm biased. I am a Potter and I make my own. These were just finished this week and are drying, soon to be headed into the kiln.

This is how I made hot process goat milk soaps, on a regular basis. Well...I figured I would do it with coconut milk and my vegan recipe (which is very different from my goat milk recipe) and I ended up making a very very wet soap with giant chunks of rock hard soap through it. My vegan recipe...

I've been making hot process soap since I started making soap, around 15 years. I always just embraced the gloppy mashed potato-ness of it. After the online communities began popping up and soap making became a "thing" more and more people started hot processing their soaps and then more newer...

I suffered for many years with eczema. I had to remove all the harsh detergents and cleansers from the house and still my hands cracked and bled. In the beginning it was a winter issue, but eventually it became year round. My Aunt took a soap making class and passed out soap for Christmas...

I love HP. I personally love the soaps that look like granite, rocks and minerals vs just smooth and creamy looking. Even my plain soaps have a strata that runs through them. I don't have any ash issues, clean up is easy. Everyone finds their own voice in this art form. I keep seeing these...

If you are making candles that will be burned at the wedding on the table while people are eating you don't want them to be fragranced. Candle fragrances can really throw off your senses when you eat and can also make some people sick. A take away candle can be fragranced, like a wedding favor...

I have an elderly Pug and he had itchy summer skin for quite a few years of his adult life. We live in the country and he has always gotten lots of baths because he likes being a get dirty Country Pug. I have always used my soap on him, usually the same I use myself with a higher superfat that...

When you put the oils for the recipe into soap calc are you adding them as percentages or as ounces of oil? If I am running a recipe that is found somewhere else, and its written in ounces of oils instead of percentages I usually calculate the percentages of the written recipe first, then go to...

To help "push" the ads back, for those still bothered by ads...just press and hold the CTRL button and hit the +++ button and it will increase the page size...kind of zooming it in, and you have just the main part of the soapcalc with the ads pushed off the browser page. Someone, somewhere...

To answer the lye/water question. After you plug in the size batch you need at soapcalc and the % of oils and fats etc. Click "calculate recipe" for the recipe to formulate, THEN click on the "View or Print Recipe" just below it and the recipe in print format with the lye and water amounts in...

The candle page on this forum isn't very busy, but reading what you wrote I believe that your wick is your issue. The problem with reclaimed wax is unless you reclaim it yourself you don't have a clue what kind of wax it is, how high or low the melt point is, how much fragrance it holds, how it...