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I think they look at from the whole animal aspect. They don't touch meat or use anything with animal product or testing all that jazz... While they stand for PITA, I stand with PETA so to me it's not a big deal. I've been curious about the soap it makes so maybe I'll make some for myself and my...

I've thought about lard but I have a lot of vegan customers who love my soaps for the simple fact that it's organic and/or all natural. Around here we don't have a whole lot of that and the soaps and other products that are available homemade and organic are outrageous in price. Maybe I can...

My Normal recipe is just the palm, coconut, sunflower, safflower, and Shea, and it's worked out amazingly. I've always used full water at 38% but I recently have had issues with soft batches so that's why I added the stearic acid. I added castor for more lather and skin benefits. The olive was...

I'm trying to step outside the box a bit with my soaps... I came up with a recipe and would like some feedback from those of you who have more experience... Here's the recipe... 11oz palm oil 11 oz coconut oil 10 oz olive oil 5 oz sunflower oil 5 oz safflower oil 8 oz shea butter 3 oz castor...

I have just put together a new recipe I would like to use as my main recipe for all soaps , if I post the recipe would you all be willing to provide some feedback or should I start a new thread? I don't want to drop in on someone's post and take over ...

I have used alkanet root powder from botanic soap.com before and got a really pretty dark purple. I did notice that it was kind of rough tho. It almost turned it into an exfoliating bar as you can feel the grains in the powder. It worked for me adding in very small amounts at a time that had...

I haven't ever had a reason to change the water. I get his point but in all my research they recommend keeping it at 38% as the lye calculator automatically puts it there and it was fine. All my batches have been hard and ready to cut by the next day and with the exception of my first goat milk...

This is the first time I've ever had this problem. My soaps have always been hard and gave amazing lathers. In all my research the water amount suggested was always 38% so I just always stuck with it. I haven't ever used FOs before this. I only used EOs. My organic soaps are huge sellers locally...

I don't think so I just barely ordered it.

Yes that is me :)

thank you I will be sure to try that! Now, the recipe I listed aside from the scent, is my main soap recipe. I worked pretty darn hard creating it on soap calc and getting it to a good range on the characteristics list. I'm really satisfied with the recipe but with the soft issue should I always...

Do you sell your soaps? You could find a local store to sell to on a regular basis and eliminate the need for tons of storage space...

I'm not sure if they were HO or not I will have to check. I bought the only ones the grocery store had... As for the water, what would I discount it? I'm still new at this and don't know how to change the water to a lesser value.

Oh and my temps were 125 for the oils I believe and about 100 for the lye. I didn't think to write down the temps so that's going off memory

My recipe is: 11 oz Palm 11 oz coconut 8 oz safflower 8 oz sunflower 8 oz Shea butter 4 oz olive 3 oz castor 20.1 oz water 7.3 oz lye 1.66 oz fragrance which I did 1.1 oz coconut and .5 pineapple It's starting to get hard but still has an almost play dough feel and still bendy ... I want to...

So I've made 2 batches of soap using the coconut fragrance and pineapple fragrance from essential depot... Both have been hard to unmold because they are so soft! My 2nd batch has been curing for almost a week now and it's still bendy and soft, almost play dough-y ... The fragrance is the only...