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<blockquote data-quote="TheGecko" data-source="post: 924906" data-attributes="member: 33279">The majority of 'best buy/expiration' date is an advertising to get you to use up and buying more product.&nbsp; As an example I bought a 35 lb bucket of Palm Oil...&quot;shelf life&quot; is approximately one year; I bought it in March 2020 and I'm still using it with zero problems.&nbsp; Of course, after I bought it I melted it all down, gave it a really good stir to distribute the stearic acid, let it cool down, stirred it again and then filled one-gallon zip-lock bags two-thirds full, removed the air out of the bags, put the bags back in the bucket, closed the lid and put it in the coolest/darkest place in my garage.I also Master Batch my Oils/Butters and Lye Solution which means I am not opening containers every time I make soap.&nbsp; Two of the reasons why I got into Master Batching because of my concerns about the affect on my having to remelt my Palm Oil all the time was having on it.&nbsp; And because I wanted to start buying larger quantities of ingredients and worried about constantly exposing them to the &quot;air&quot;.&nbsp; And even with Master Batching, because I wasn't making as much soap as I had planned to this past year, I did follow [USER=9248]@DeeAnna[/USER]'s suggestion and added ROE to my MB'd Oils/Butters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheGecko, post: 924906, member: 33279"] The majority of 'best buy/expiration' date is an advertising to get you to use up and buying more product. As an example I bought a 35 lb bucket of Palm Oil..."shelf life" is approximately one year; I bought it in March 2020 and I'm still using it with zero problems. Of course, after I bought it I melted it all down, gave it a really good stir to distribute the stearic acid, let it cool down, stirred it again and then filled one-gallon zip-lock bags two-thirds full, removed the air out of the bags, put the bags back in the bucket, closed the lid and put it in the coolest/darkest place in my garage. I also Master Batch my Oils/Butters and Lye Solution which means I am not opening containers every time I make soap. Two of the reasons why I got into Master Batching because of my concerns about the affect on my having to remelt my Palm Oil all the time was having on it. And because I wanted to start buying larger quantities of ingredients and worried about constantly exposing them to the "air". And even with Master Batching, because I wasn't making as much soap as I had planned to this past year, I did follow [USER=9248]@DeeAnna[/USER]'s suggestion and added ROE to my MB'd Oils/Butters. [/QUOTE]

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