Todd Ziegler
Circle Z soaps
My bad, I thought you were using table sugar. I have sodium Lactate but I am running out with no way to get more.
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If this works as well as SL it would sure be a convenient inexpensive alternative! It’s worth a try! Thanks for sharing.
Does it matter what type of salt? I have Iodized Table Salt and also granulated Sea Salt. Which would be better?
Do you use it in the same ratios as SL, about 1 teaspoon ppo?
Here's the cut of my latest HP (hot process) soap. Made with Lard, Olive, Coconut, Castor Oil and superfatted with Kokum Butter. I added Coconut Milk, Sour Cream, Apple Cider Vinegar, Orange Juice, Sodium Lactate, and Mulberry Silk.
They are beautiful! I have yet to attempt HP. It intimidates me for some reason.
Can you use sugar and salt in the same batch?
Belindasuds
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You sure can. Be sure to dissolve them in the water before adding the lye though. 1 tsp per pound of soap is the general rule for both when adding to your lye solution. People do push that higher though, particularly with salt in salt bars.
Those colours and swirls are lovely! @Jersey Girl
Regina Green
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Gorgeous!
Very impressed with the layers (?) / swirls (?) that you made with a HP. I have not attempted anything like that with HP.
The swirl is a hanger swirl. I used the tool that Brambleberry sells, but I’ve also made my own with a hanger covered with electric tape. I soap at temps usually in the neighborhood of 100-105 sometimes even a little warmer. I stick blend to emulsion then start adding my colors and stir by hand. Sometimes I add my FO to the oils before I add the lye. When I first start pouring the trace is light, but by the time I’m finished layering the colors the batter is a more medium trace consistency. Too thin and the colors get muddled. I usually have to work pretty fast though. I always use a behaving FO. I always use some lard and between that and olive and usually one other soft oil they usually are around 50-55% of the oil content.
It has taken me a while (almost a year) to get my HP soap fluid enough to swirl. It is so different from CP which I have been doing for 7 years before starting with HP. I so love the HP soaps quality - I am going to attempt a tall and skinny shimmy with HP next.
Here you go:
Carolyne Thrasher
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You've really mastered swirls! Those are very pretty!
I have used 1 tsp ppo of both sea salt and table salt and both times the soap came out good.
I wouldn't use iodized salt in soap. You don't want extra iodine in soap. Use fine sea salt or fine table salt or Kosher salt. The salts you absolutely can't use are Epsom Salt (which is magnesium sulfate - not a salt at all), and Dendritic Salt.
Garden Gives Me Joy
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Thanks to Covid19, I'm out of sea salt and was forced to buy table salt nearby. However, I want to try a salt bar.
Would the table salt be equally or comparably good (as sea salt) for controlling excessive oil (and acne)? Do the 2 feel the same also?
Would the table salt be equally or comparably good (as sea salt) for controlling excessive oil (and acne)? Do the 2 feel the same also?
Here is a thread that discusses different salts. Ive not yet made a salt bar myself so have no personal experience.
salt bar - what kinds of salt can and can't be used?
Table salt is fine for soap making. It has smaller sized grains. The only kinds of salt to not use in soap, are Epsom Salt (which is not really salt at all but magnesium sulfate) and Dead Sea Salt because it doesn't set up well and leaves you with gooey sticky soap. If you use Pink Himalayan salt, you should grind it because the large grains are uncomfortably scratchy. Oh and iodized salt is not a good idea - because you do not want excess iodine in your soap.
