I tried a few new things with this recipe: I masterbatched the lye (well, just enough for this one recipe) and when I needed to add more liquid, I added boiling water to some titanium dioxide to see if it helped get rid of any clumps. I'm pretty new to TD, but it worked pretty good. Also I used mainly soy oil which i don't think I've used much before (it's labeled as "Vegetable Oil"). We'll see how scratchy those apricot seeds are.