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I cant always do some girly stuff so i made axe handle. Not a poetic thing but nevertheless very much needed around the house.

Oh and this

What happend?

http://www.truthinaging.com/ingredient- ... -your-skin

How good is: http://www.amazon.com/The-Everything-So ... 537&sr=1-1 ? Only 10$

I made 2 Castile batches and one month after they are hard as brick. 30% water

No, i dont have a problem with getting soap out. I have dismantling mold When i unscrew two nuts i remove sides and soap is lying only on bottom piece of wood. Then i take flat piece of metal and scrape it off. Yesterday i unmolded maybe 6 hours after pouring without problems.

I have wooden mold and im on 6th batch, wood looks ok with a discoloration but generally i dont see a problem for now.

While at free books here is another one, a little bit older ;) Soap-Making Manual A practical handbook on the raw materials, their manipulation, analysis and control in the modern soap plant. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34114/34 ... 4114-h.htm

Hm, but why line the mold? Whats the problem with it?

We are regularly rendering pig lard, is rendering beef tallow somehow different? And does it smell more?

I dont know... talked to some older people how soaps were made and stuff they put into it together with some rough ballpark "measurements" surly created some wild soaps :D Here is one soap from a soaping blog i found. It seems its about 30 years old, they head to cut it with saw for metal...

It was rather low, 30%

I have done that and before saponification was 724g and after unmolding was 670g. Thats about 7.5% loss

Water loss will always be relatively same no meter what the water discount. Im doing calculator for weight and price of batch or individual soap. Its going like ((lye weight+water weight+EO weight+oil weight)-10%)/100g=number of bars

It seems that for private use i can live with problems of diluted soap. Question is, what to use as preservative?

Yes, one good deed every day :D . Youre true about oils: www.ineosstyrenics.net/media/pdf/tech-d ... stance.pdf Ive got PS cups fox mixing soaps. They are clear, like material for cd cases. Now Ive gonna wash them good and give them to my mother when i found some HDPE cups.

I hope your just kidding about buying weed haha. Just go out in field and pick some

I was checking some data and it says that PS is alkali resistant, "1" is highest level of resistance and here too http://k-mac-plastics.net/data%20sheets ... stance.htm

I have melted some CP soaps, made a liquid of it and it works ok. It doesnt go bad, when thickens i add some water and look and feels just like commercial one. HP liquid soap process in long with lots of cooking and mixing and was wondering whats the difference in end result? Why would i do...