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    My first shaving soap is a success!

    Hello! I indeed that this is post is beautiful!!! Regarding my research progress, I am cutting down the amount of CO in comparison to SA as I still have in mind that more than 25% of CO can be a bit drying for the skin. So far I have decrease the CO amount to 35% and my DH has not found any...
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    My first shaving soap is a success!

    Hello! My DH tried yesterday (SA/CO 52/48 SF 5% gliceryn 15%) and did not find it drying, he loved the bubbles!!! I will add some nice butter as SF and see if it benefits the recipe. Cheers Vero
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    My first shaving soap is a success!

    Hi! I forgot to say that the water was warm, maybe not enough hot though.... Cheers Vero
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    My first shaving soap is a success!

    Hello! I gave a second try to the recipe using the two steps procedure and a concentration of KOH of 25% and it did improve a lot!! the mixture was much easier to work with!! I also controlled the temperature to be sure that I would not reach temperatures below the melting point of the...
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    My first shaving soap is a success!

    It is just that my stearic acid was not 100% stearic acid but a mixture of palmitic and stearic, but i managed myself to get 100% stearic and did my recipe with that. According to the MSDS yours is 100% stearic acid. Cheers
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    My first shaving soap is a success!

    It might be also that the recipe needed more water...I added 100% KOH in a concentration of 30% Just trying to figure it out what I did wrong... Vero
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    My first shaving soap is a success!

    Hello! My shaving soap has not changed its appereance, it is as white and hard as in the beginning....I will try tomorrow to conduct the same recipe but with the commercial stearine in order to see if the results are more alike yours....will post results!! Cheers Vero
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    My first shaving soap is a success!

    Hello! Finally I have managed to give the SA 52%, CO 48% recipe a try: I melted the CO and SA separately, both in a jar inside a pot full of hot water (about 80 C); I added the KOH to the melted CO (still heat on), hand stirred for 10 minutes and as nothing hapenned I shifted to stir blended...
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    My first shaving soap is a success!

    Hi!! You are absolutely right!!, I will buy the correct product and most likely I will try to do the recipe using the stearic acid and the stearine. Thanks!
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    My first shaving soap is a success!

    Hello! Thanks for answering! This is indeed messy :). The label of the bottle that I bought says estearine in capital letters, however, just below the name of stearic acid appears and its corresponding chemical formula (C18H36O2). The composition is C16 (I believe it is palmitic) 58.35%...
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    My first shaving soap is a success!

    I love this thread!!! Than you sooo much for the shared recipes. I have taken plenty of notes and I will try them myself and post my comments. I do not have stearic acid so I need to order it. Some suppliers consider stearic acid the same product as triestearine eventhough they have different...
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    Milk & cream (cow) use in soaps - the In's-N-Out's

    Hello!! I have started making milk soap with honey. Yesterday I did several batches and used cream or dissolved powdered milk for babies. I usually have a 50% NaOH solution stored in order to safe time when making soap so I calculated the amount of water needed to prepare a 30% lye solution...
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    Baby smell

    Hi, i am of the opinion that babies do not need any soap. Mine is 7 months and have never used soap on her.. But i like the idea of trying for myself oo, castor and avocado and add some milk powder at trace...never done any milk soap and i think its about time to give it a try... Sent from my...
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    Baby smell

    Hello! Sorry for the misunderstanding..I will not use it on a baby, my friend wants to give small soaps to her family as a memory of her daughter's birth and have asked me to do the soap bars as a favour. So seems like lavander is the most popular one! Thanks! Sent from my GT-S5360 using Soap...
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    Baby smell

    Hello! A friend of mine have just become a mom and have asked me to make some soap-bars because of the happy event. She will present them to her closest family. I will use an easy soap recipe and a heart shape mould but I was wondering about the smell...any help? I am thinking about...
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    About Soap Calc

    Hello! Sorry for starting the post and not continue debating...I was away from the computer and I do not like answering from the mobile phone..I am absolutely unable to type a proper sentence.. Many thanks for all the answers. Seems like the numbers given by soapcalc are just...
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    About Soap Calc

    Yesterday I was thinking about the values of the parameters shown in Soap Calc...and I have some question, is the conditioning value related with how well an oil is absorbed by the skin? Just wondering...
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    Designing your own soap recipe?

    hello! i was wondering that if you do not use any animal fat or palm oil, what do u use to make your soap bar hard? cheers! Sent from my GT-S5360 using Soap Making mobile app
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    Question about the hardness of a soap bar

    Many thanks for your explanation! I still need to learn a lot about the properties of the fatty acids. :) Cheers!
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    Question about the hardness of a soap bar

    Hi! Many thanks for the explanation about the hardness parameter! I will follow your advices and tell you the results. I am from Spain and it is not easy to get palm oil around here. I thought soy wax was a relatively inexpensive way of making the soap harder. It is way cheaper that cocoa...
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