from Italy with love!

[Yukari]

Hi everyone,
my name is Valentina and i'm italian!
My adventure in the soap world started 8 months ago and i'm not going to stop! :smile: I also make cosmetic creams, lotions and so on..
I think italian soaping tradition is a bit different from the american one, I wanna know everything! I joined your interesting forum trying to learn all about new tendencies and saponification tricks! I'm so excited to know you!

 

[Chay]

Hello and Welcome to the forum!

 

[lsg]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[robertw98144]

Welcome aboard! :grin:

 

[MaitriBB]

Welcome, happy to have you!

 

[Pepsi Girl]

I think italian soaping tradition is a bit different from the american one, I wanna know everything! I'm so excited to know you!

Like what do you do different? Tell us everything!

Welcome
Pepsi Girl:wave:

 

[MsDee]

Hi and Welcome to SMF

 

[Yukari]

thank you everybody

well pepsi girl, for example the standard amount of water is the 30% of the oils. If someone increase that amount is called "increased water method". I understand that your standard amount of water is around 35% ?
Another thing, from our soaping theory, work temperature are around 45°C (113°F i guess), we rarely work at room temperature. And that's one of the first things i want to try!
There are some theory post i can read for clear up my mind? or anything you want to suggest me, i appreciate

 

[Lisars]

Hi Valentina!

Welcome

 

[Bubbles00]

Hello!
I'm from Italy too!

 

[Yukari]

:-o
ciao bubbles!!

 

[countymounty22]

Welcome Valentina.

 

[lizflowers42]

Welcome! I would love to hear what your favorite recipe has been so far! I'm only a few batches in myself and want to try everything everyone suggests!

 

[Pepsi Girl]

thank you everybody

well pepsi girl, for example the standard amount of water is the 30% of the oils. If someone increase that amount is called "increased water method". I understand that your standard amount of water is around 35% ?
Another thing, from our soaping theory, work temperature are around 45°C (113°F i guess), we rarely work at room temperature. And that's one of the first things i want to try!
There are some theory post i can read for clear up my mind? or anything you want to suggest me, i appreciate

Yukari I think you will find reading this forum there are standards or starting points that we use but after that people do lots of different things. I normally use 33% but sometimes i use less water.
And I use different temps depending on what kind of soap I making. So what you will find is maybe not so much the Italian way versus American way but just lots of different ways. When I started soaping years ago I was totally " by the book" don't deviate even a little or your soap will fail! But that's just not true and that's one thing that makes this forum so interesting people dare to deviate!

 

[Yukari]

@pepsi girl: i think you're right! i read some posts so far and i understand that there are as many way to make soap as the people in here! :razz:
i wrote that sentence because one of the first thing that struck me when i started to see yt tutorials by american soap makers was "how in the hell do they manage to maintain a liquid batch till the end?? what recipe do they use? what method? roblem: " that's why i said so

@lizflowers42: oh me too, i have only 8 batches under my belt, most of which i made for xmas so i didn't try them already. i always ask myself if i will be capable of see the difference between them!

For example i really liked:
olive oil 45%
lard 25%
coconut oil 15%
cocoa butter 5%
shea butter 5%
rice bran oil 5%

That's all folks!
(hope my english is understandable :Kitten Love: )