Astridfitz
New Member
I am as green as it gets as far as it comes to making soap, done my first batch today.
I am doing an online course on Udemy and got the recipe from that. I was surprised to find the trace happening within less than a minute, I am wondering if that had anything to do with the temperature here (I think it was about 6 degrees celsius, the window was open but the heating in the kitchen was on )
Or the fact there was a temp difference between the lye water 110F and the oil 129F
I put my EO and the colour in last so that didn't affect it.
Recipe I used
85g coconut oil
225g olive oil
47g lye
113g water (I used RO water)
20ml EO (orange/sweet orange)
and for the colour I mixed 1.5 tsp of Paprika powder in with 2 table spoons of Olive oil
Advice is very welcome, also looking for recommendations for soap supplies suppliers here in Ireland, or the UK
I am doing an online course on Udemy and got the recipe from that. I was surprised to find the trace happening within less than a minute, I am wondering if that had anything to do with the temperature here (I think it was about 6 degrees celsius, the window was open but the heating in the kitchen was on )
Or the fact there was a temp difference between the lye water 110F and the oil 129F
I put my EO and the colour in last so that didn't affect it.
Recipe I used
85g coconut oil
225g olive oil
47g lye
113g water (I used RO water)
20ml EO (orange/sweet orange)
and for the colour I mixed 1.5 tsp of Paprika powder in with 2 table spoons of Olive oil
Advice is very welcome, also looking for recommendations for soap supplies suppliers here in Ireland, or the UK