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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DeeAnna" data-source="post: 924932" data-attributes="member: 9248">You can always add ROE to oils. By adding it up front, your oils get the most protection for the longest time. But it's worthwhile to add ROE whenever you can. Better late than never!Citric acid isn't the same chemical as sodium citrate. You can make sodium citrate by reacting citric acid with sodium hydroxide. Because we use sodium hydroxide to make soap, some soap makers add citric acid to their lye solution with the extra sodium hydroxide that citric acid needs to turn itself into sodium citrate.Other soap makers buy ready-made sodium citrate and use that instead. Using sodium citrate rather than citric acid eliminates the need to add the extra sodium hydroxide and deal with that extra math.But in the end, however you get there, it's citrate that is the chelator in soap, not citric acid.</blockquote>

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