ohsoap
Well-Known Member
I apologize in advance if this has been covered before but I couldn't find it in any of the threads. Tomorrow I am making my first 10lb batch of soap in my new mold. I am doing a bastile to see what bar sizes I will get out of it, but I know from doing my regular 2lbs, that my castiles don't fill the mold because of the water disc. Is there a special formula to calculate how much oils will actually fill the mold?
I'm wondering if I should take my recipe at the defaulted WD in soap calc, then with the 40% lye concentration, and figure out the difference, and just keep upping the oils until I get the same number (volume) between oils and water total. (I hope that makes sense)
I'm wondering if I should take my recipe at the defaulted WD in soap calc, then with the 40% lye concentration, and figure out the difference, and just keep upping the oils until I get the same number (volume) between oils and water total. (I hope that makes sense)