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A Painless Zap Tester In the process of getting a handle on the soap making process, I not only re-invented the alkaline battery but also came up with a very simple alternative to the zap test. The zap test is simple enough but has it's own set of issues, i.e sanitation, yuck factor and...

I am a real coward when it comes to pain and prior to today, I had only done the zap test on a bar I made 20 years ago and a commercial bar. Today I got real bold and tongued a few bars recently made and tasted nothing, like not even flavor let alone pain. I have one problem bar made about...

Having been removed from another group for discussing "off topic" subjects like making lye and hot process, I hope I am among more tolerant folks here. I am interested in hot process soap making for a number of reasons but am having a great deal of trouble finding any useful information on...

I would love to make a soap that smells like good old Life Buoy. According to the Wiki article, the key ingredient is/was carbolic acid or phenol but it seems to be absurdly expensive these days and I am wondering if anyone knows any other fragrance that smells like Life Buoy. Cole Parmer...

I just started using my home made soap and find it works great in the bathroom but not so cool in the shop. In the latter it works but with nearly zero lather and the runoff looks like thin milk. It dawned on me that the shop is not on the water softener and conclude that this is the...