Recent content by shugohmk

How much sugar do you need to add to make a soap or shampoo bar extra bubbly?? And when is the right time to add?? Lye water or during trace?

I didn't think there would be too much based on the cleansing amount the calculator gave me but I will try lowering it. As for the SL, i would take out 0.64oz of water and replace that with 0.64oz of SL right?

Did your soap ed up being hard? I placed it on the soap calculator and replaced the soybean oil with bro. Cleansing was 0 and the hardness was 17. What did you use to harden the soap?

This is the recipe that I came up with. Can anyone tell me if this would make a good recipe for a shampoo bar? Also, can anyone tell me how I can add sodium lactate to make this bar last longer and hard? I'm afraid that this might be soft still after molding. Thanks!!

When is the right time to discount water for the SL? How would you discount if you're making a milk soap at 50/50?

Very informative. I didn't think there was a calculator with SL. Do you mind providing the link for that? Thanks!

Hello. I think I've done enough research to find out about using SL to CP methods. One article stated using 1tsp per lb of oil. While another talked about percentage and discounting. Now, Here is my question or questions. Let's say I want to make a 2 lb soap (32oz) with 3% SL...

Hi guys. I want make soap with Rice milk. However, I don't want to freeze the rice milk. So I just wanna pour the lye solution (lye and water) to the rice milk Is there a ratio for this type of soap making? Because I know it's not a good idea to pour the lie solution straight to the milk...

I live in California. LOL! From what I know after doing enough research. They throw it away. And when we asked, they tell us that they are thrown away. I don't know anyone that works at a butcher shop or is a butcher so I tried asking at our local grocery store. Time for me to go straight to a...

Do you guys use beef tallow or Lard on your soaps? I use lard because I can just buy them from walmart. But I would much love to try beef tallow. We tried asking the butcher in the grocery store we go to and they told us that we can't reserve them. I don't know if the butcher understood if he...

I want to make soap with jewelweed in it. I live in California and it doesn't grow here. I tried looking for them on websites I go to, but none. Anyone know where I can buy dried jewelweed plant or oil? Thanks!!!

I'm new to soap making. As I haven't made any soap yet (still waiting for the ingredients to arrive in the mail) I'm looking around for more things to learn. I've watched a lot of soap making videos and read stuff here too. I know you can have a partial gel in soaps and you can prevent...

Aww. They don't have it in California. So I have no choice but to buy them. I don't know where to buy the actual extract. The site given previously doesn't work.

Is there a rule on what number the cleansing number should be?

what is the normal amount of superfat that you should use? I always used 5% superfat whenever i put my recipe on the lye calculator.