Could you post your recipe? I'm sure some of the long time soap makers here could help you out! Keep at it though. You'll figure it all out!
~OK so I posted a recipe from my e-book from BB one day and was trying to figure out something with weighing on a scale and i did run this through a couple Lye calc and it was the same and a lady said from this forum named DeeAnna said it was 2 much Lye and re-did it for me so I used hers....
My recipe:
Your recipe with my comments:
16 oz Coconut (with this much CO, this may be drying to the skin -- but it will work)
16 oz Palm
16 oz Olive Oil
2 oz Castor Oil
13 - 19 oz Water (measured by volume)
7.4 oz Lye (measured by weight)
Her recipe:
Coconut 16 ounces weight = 454 grams
Palm 16 ounces weight = 454 grams
Olive 16 ounces weight = 454 grams
Castor 2 ounces weight = 57 grams
Lye 5.4 ounces weight = 155 grams
Water 14 ounces weight = 398 grams
of course she said run through a soap calc but did not come out right the 1st one did...i figured since she was more advanced that she knew more..so i made it thinking maybe she superfated......
here is my post if you want to see.
http://www.soapmakingforum.com/f34/help-please-34387/
my soap is getting a little harder today but still afraid i did not use enough lye