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I recently bought a small crock pot and tried Kaleb's Honey and Oat Castile recipe. This is the result: What are these spots? I have never come across them in CP soaps! At some point, when I opened the lid to mix the batter, I noticed that the sides of the crock pot had some white hard...

I recently came across a recipe that involves vegetable shortening, or in other words Crisco in the US. I hope that's right. I live in Greece and we have a similar product which is made of vegetable fats but also includes "butter flavouring". Is it possible to use it, or will the soap have a...

I have a few questions about trace. I know that answers for these are probably scattered around the forum, but I can't reach a solid conclusion so here goes. 1) To slow down trace, use full water. This seems to help slow down things for advanced techniques (swirling etc). Is this right? 2) I...

This seems to have become my trademark between my female friends and extended family. They seem to be flying off my shelves, I have even had some cousins fight over a bar! Seems it's helping with cellulite, due to the caffeine and the scrub of the ground coffee. Anyway, here it is...

This is my first column swirl: Used yellow, white, blue pigments and activated charcoal for the colours. I think the column I used (a whiskey square tumbler) was too big, hence the large ugly area in the middle. This is 60% OO, 20% CO, 15% shea butter and 5% PKO. It traced too fast...

I prepared a Bastille recipe yesterday and coloured the batter with white, yellow and blue pigments. Here's the soap when molded: And here it is cut: It ended up with a off-white, yellow and light blue swirl which is not too bad! This gelled by the way, I am wondering whether to force...

I have been meaning to ask this question, about OO. Here in Greece, we have three types (broadly speaking) of OO: - extra virgin OO - pomace oil and - OO which is processed from older oils and other undefined sources. Still OO though. I tend to use the third kind and get a yellowish soap. The...

I just molded my first goat milk soap. When I added the lye to the goat milk (which was part ice cubes and part smaller frozen pieces), everything went well. I left it on the side to prepare my oils and when I got back to the milk, it had turned into a thick cream. It didn't seem to affect...

I have come to understand that a good shaving soap recipe is hard to come to and that's why there are so few floating around. I have seen songwind's recipe but unfortunately I do not have access to a crock pot (to be remedied soon), so I tried to do a CP shaving soap using: tallow, stearic...

Here in Greece, it's a tradition to make St. John's Wort Oil with extra virgin OO and the flowers of the plant every spring. My grandmother does this every year and I have more than 10oz of crimson red oil which I usually use for treating burns etc. I am thinking of using it in a Castille...

I just unmolded my first coffee soap, which I have to say is the first soap I am happy with. I used 8 espresso shots in about 1.5 pounds of water and about 4 spoons of ground coffee in the mix. I also tried to do a swirl which has worked in some parts of the soap, but not throughout. The...

I know that the "white spot" question has been asked many times, but I think I have found out why it happens for me. Look at the following soap: The spots don't zap and the soap has a Ph of 9. I have saponified this at around 100F with high % of C.O. These white spots happened to me...

Hi everyone, I just embarked on my CP (amateur) career - it's a wonderful hobby! I have read the various threads about shaving soaps and I understand most of them. There's one thing I don't understand: some posters claim that they can create CP shaving soaps which have stearic acid>60%. How is...