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I made my first attempt at ZNSC. Used the faux sea water with salt and baking soda. First, is it normal for the lye solution to foam a...
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LidiaG reacted to Ford's post in the thread Does anyone add Titanium dioxide directly to lye water? with
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Hi, put a couple three, stainless steel ball bairings. In the premix container. Then give it a shake. Every now and then. When you... -
NaOH reacts with carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air to form sodium carbonate (Na2CO3), also called soda ash or washing soda. The "lye lint"...
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Hey! Don't assume a concentrated lye solution behaves the same way as plain water! Your NaOH solution was nowhere close to boiling. A...
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These soaps are both made with plant colorants - the red is from Himalayan rhubarb with a madder root infusion in the lye water.
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I have made soap balls by grating my soap with a salad shooter I bought at Goodwill really cheap. I then put the shreds in a zip lot...
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I’ve made soap balls…well much smaller but the same principle, from my end pieces when cutting a loaf. The soap is still malleable and...
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Yup, that is the one. When I tried to read their entire label, it felt like I fell down the rabbit hole (reference to Alice In...
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Goatee soap!
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I've been wondering, too. I made some soap with 75% olive oil and 25% goat tallow with 100% water replaced with goat milk. I called it...
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LidiaG replied to the thread Dispersing clay in milk.Wow! Thank you for sharing! That's a big difference in color
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Yup, I do that when I use yogurt in my soap and add it with the oils, works fine
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LidiaG replied to the thread Got a cloudy lye solution.Sometimes for a wide search it's nice to use Google...
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I read others saying that sugar heats up their lye solution and then burns, but I've never, ever had that happen. Honey, yes; molasses...
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