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Thanks for all your responses! It sounds like maybe the recipe overheated. Any ideas why that would happen or how to mitigate it? This is the recipe I used: coconut oil 80 oz olive oil 40 oz avocado oil 8 oz shea butter 15 oz sodium hydroxide 22 oz water 50 oz sodium lactate 9 teaspoons I...

Hi all, I have been trying to find ways to harden-up my soap recipe without using palm oil or lard, so I recently made a batch with sodium lactate, which I'd never used. The soap got nice and hard, but there were a couple other changes. The top of the soap ended up having a strange cracked...

hi all, i just tried to unmold yesterday's batch of CP soap and it wasn't coming out of the molds well. the corners/edges were getting stuck inside the mold, leaving the soap looking pretty crappy. i used my regular recipe. the only thing i did differently was instead of putting it inside...

Hi! My mom just gave me some beeswax and honey from her hive of bees. I'd like to try using it for a batch of CP soap. Does anyone know what I need to do to prepare the wax for soapmaking? Any recipe ideas are also appreciated! Thank you for any advice, Becky

The recipe I used was: Olive oil - 58 oz Coconut oil - 37.8 oz Palm oil - 27.75 oz Shea butter - 2.52 oz Water - 41.58 oz Lye - 18.08 oz I put it in 4 brambleberry silicone loaf molds. I've used this recipe a bunch of times and it's great. I use different fragrances and natural...

Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone. The recipe I used was: Olive oil - 58 oz Coconut oil - 37.8 oz Palm oil - 27.75 oz Shea butter - 2.52 oz Water - 41.58 oz Lye - 18.08 oz I put it in 4 brambleberry silicone loaf molds. I've used this recipe a bunch of times and it's great. I...

Hi there, I just made a batch of soap with my normal recipe and used my new silicone loaf molds from brambleberry. I added dried lavender and alkanet root powder swirled in. The soap (especially the edges and corners) turned out weirdly chalky and inconsistent. Any ideas why this happened? The...

Finally revisiting this idea... How long would an 8% castor and 92% olive oil need to cure? 6 months? Thanks for the help!

thanks for all the suggestions, everyone!

Hi there, I have a friend who is allergic to coconut oil, so I'm trying to find a good recipe without it. Any suggestions? It would also be great if it's palm-free. Thanks for your help! Becky

Anyone have a good palm-free recipe that's not too soft? Thanks for any suggestions! Becky

Thanks Nightlilly! I colored it with spirulina powder. I like the way it came out too. I'd read that the spirulina can change to brown with curing, but mine still looks nice and green! Sorry for the delayed reply. :)

Hi! A couple of my batches of soap have ended up with a thin white residue on top. I attached a photo. Does anyone know what causes this? Is it bad? Thanks for your help! Becky

Hi there! I'm still a beginner and would love some advice on adding spirulina powder. Here's the recipe I'll be using: 18.5 ounces Olive oil 12 ounces Coconut oil 9 ounces Palm oil 1 ounce Shea butter 5.8 ounces Lye 13.5 ounces water So, it's about a 3 lb recipe in the end. I've only...

Hi! I'm new to soapmaking and am trying to decide on a good mechanic's soap recipe. A couple things I'm looking for: -I want it to be white-ish (not too yellow) so maybe no palm oil? -I want to use pumice powder. Thoughts on how much? -I want to use peppermint essential oil. I read that you...

The first can I cut up immediately and it was a little squishy. The second can I unmolded and then left for a couple days before cutting. Not sure about the false trace...?

Thank you everyone! Very helpful info!

Great; thank you!

Hi there, I'm new to soapmaking, and had some issues with my second batch. I used two pringles cans as molds, lined with freezer paper. (I now know that pringles cans aren't good for CP because of the aluminum.) Anyway: When I tried pulling the soap out of the molds 24 hours later, they...