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I didn't understand it that way. It looks like she heated the oil to 100, then added the room temp FO after it was out of the microwave. Did I misunderstand then?

I cut the soap I made yesterday using annatto, paprika, and turmeric infused olive oils, and I used some zinc oxide for the white. I’m getting better at this soap making thing, I think 🙂

Okay. I have so many dyes, I was kind of hoping this would be a good way to use them up. I really don’t want to use any artificial colors, though. I’ll go back to researching natural colorants :)

My mind was going to “I used soda ash as a fixative” and “if there can be a layer of soda ash on soap….”. I know they aren’t the same (or are they?) but it had me wondering. Maybe I’ll make a little extra the next time I make a batch and see how it works as far as color holding or changing, and...

I have a bunch of fiber reactive Procion dyes that I used to dye yarn. Is there any reason they couldn’t be used for cp soap? It dissolves in water, doesn’t dissolve in olive oil. I haven’t tested it in lye water. Could there be a chemical reaction with the lye?

Thanks so much. @ResolvableOwl I didn’t think about putting the colored oils in first so that is especially helpful. I’m a fan of less cleaning any day of the week. I’ll take all the advice you’ve given

I want to do a 4 color soap using infused olive oil. Each color will be 1/5 of the total batch, though 2 colors will be the same. This is for a swirl and I’m going for colors A B C D A. I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to split the batch and I think (this often gets me in...

What is FFA? I checked the abbreviations post and don’t see that one. The top of our air fryer is coated with grease. Maybe I can use this to clean it, if I can figure out how to keep it off the burner things

A google search led me to one of the posts, then I started reading more posts, and decided to join

That link is great, Thanks!

I'm new here and to soapmaking. I made my first batch of soap on July 6th. I just couldn't bring myself to do a plain bar with no colors so I stuck a cucumber in the blender and then froze it into cubes, and replaced my water with those. For the other color, I used coffee that I made from my...