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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...

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"...

Hey! Don't assume a concentrated lye solution behaves the same way as plain water! Your NaOH solution was nowhere close to boiling. A...

These soaps are both made with plant colorants - the red is from Himalayan rhubarb with a madder root infusion in the lye water.

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...

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...

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...

Goatee soap!

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...

Wow! Thank you for sharing! That's a big difference in color

Yup, I do that when I use yogurt in my soap and add it with the oils, works fine

Sometimes for a wide search it's nice to use Google...

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...

thank you! Or you can also sodium citrate instead