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Hi, it is possible that shea butter in CP soap, can make the skin feel very dry? For first time I make a soap that includes shea butter by 5%, I usually make the same recipe with a very good result without shea butter. But yesterday I try the soap from the recipe that includes shea butter and I...

After some years of soap-making this is the first time something happens to my soap and I have no idea what is it, so I am in panic and thinking a lot!! What can make this happens? maybe the Sodium Hydroxide? Maybe the coconut oil? I really don't know but this was a simple recipe...Pure coconut...

Hi, lately I had been reading a lot about Coco Betaine. I know it is a surfactant that can be used in many things. Have ever you used this in CP soap, or making MP soap with this as an extra? or used in anything else? I would like to hear your opinion about this product, apparently is a...

Hi, this is the first time something like this happens. Have no idea why as I used ROE to keep my oils in good condition, and as well in all my recipe (1 drop x every ounce of oils) that was the rule of thumb Lori Nova gave me when I took her CP boot camp course. The original color of my soap...

I'm new in labeling and been reading a lot about INCI I found confusing about the way we have to write the name in the label, for example: lavandula angustifolia (lavender) oil = lavender essential oil Ricinus communis (castor) seed oil = castor oil Do we have to write exactly like that? I...

I had been reading a lot about people adding cocoa butter in soap. I make a batch with 5% of cocoa butter in all my ingredients, the result was not what I expected, it takes a while to obtain lather, is like the soap bar have a film of wax. Does anybody had make soap with cocoa butter as part of...

Hi, I'm new in using fragances, I been making soaps (just for my family) but plain, without any kind of fragance. Now I will like to add some, but never really know the ammount to add to my soap. Everybody talk about .7 - .9 % but nobody explain percentage of what!! just the oils? the total...