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I made some bentonite clay soap which was taking a long time to harden. (Probably a recipe problem) Thinking that it might harden more quickly, I put it in the oven at 80 degrees C for 45 mins. It did the opposite. It almost turned liquid again. My question is, did the oils not saponify...

This may be of interest:- "You want to be careful in discounting water for recipes that use milk, honey, clays, oatmeal as these ingredients absorb water and can cause cracking if a high water discount is used." (comes from lovinsoap.com) - Much later: I seem to have posted this under the...

The soap recipe includes honey - some people prefer not to insulate the soap as the honey can cause the soap to heat up too much.

I don't know how relevant this is, but I use soapcalc and try to get some of each - lauric, myristic, palmitic, stearic, ricinoleic, oleic, linoleic and linolenic into the soap. I'm not even sure what each of them do for your skin, but thought that since they are part of the recipe sheet, they...

Thanks for the responses. :-)

I have noticed a white sort of film on the lye mix after it has cooled down. Could it be caused by lime in the water? It doesn't seem to be unmixed lye.

I did carrot soap about 10 weeks ago - pureed it first and used frozen carrot juice as water. The soap turned out really nicely. Have also done grapes, but that didn't do so well. The lye turned the pureed grapes, brown. There is probably a way around that though.

Hi, I'm new to the forum and I live in the UK. I do CP soap. Just wanted to add that I was told pure olive oil soap is 'slimy' if used before a long curing period (up to a year). It's great baby soap though. Also, Lotus, the colour of your avocado soap is lovely. At what point did you add...