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@ed.balaun Here’s another bookmarked spot for reference. http://www.soap-making-essentials.com/soap-making-oils.html

My sentiments exactly! 😂

I have used this as reference & have it bookmarked. https://lovinsoap.com/oils-chart/

Coarse

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I like the scent out of the bottle. It does remind me of the incense my Dad used to burn in the 70’s. However, I haven’t soaped with it yet. I will make a test batch soon & report back!

Usual recipe, ended disastrously. YLSU

Honesty

You may have figured out by now that I love to “test” soaps. Thanks to you & your words of wisdom in a thread somewhere, I now keep a bar from every single batch in a kind of “soap museum” so I can watch & smell (I’m a big SNIFFER) how time changes the bars. 🙏 😊 My brother has requested some...

This batch was hard enough to cut less than 12 hours after pouring thanks to no naughty FO. Thrilled with how dark the soap is after adding just a bit of activated charcoal to half the batter.

James

On that note 🎵 I made a 14oz ZNSC batch today. As many of you already know ZNSC soaps are notorious for not really holding color but seems the addition of the additive, activated charcoal, makes for a lovely black & white bar. I just made and cut the bars today so time may change the color but...

Sorry, I should have given a few more details in my original post. It was a ZNSB batch. I had been using ZNSB acronym but thought I read a comment from @Zany_in_CO on another thread that mentioned even when using “tweak”(in this case mine was 80%OO, 15%CO & 5% castor) the soap would still be...

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I have hard water & do use a chelator in every batch. When testing lather I’ve noticed both the lard & soy wax soaps produce a “heavy” dense lather & the lather falls down the ledge every time. What is left behind is not what I was testing, I just happened to leave a set out “lather piles”...

I use same 2% of oils of sodium citrate in every batch. Same SF for the lard & soy (3%) & 0% for ZNSC.

@lenarenee I do use sodium citrate as a chelator for the hard water in my area. Each of the batches have the same amount of sodium citrate @ 2% of oils. As to super fat %: ZNSC SF=0% Lard SF=3% Soy Wax SF=3%

OhMyStars that is absolutely brilliant & I will use that remedy for that mold ASAP! 🥇👏❤️✨

I have done my “lather test” numerous times. So believe me when I say that had I not “fiddled” with the lather and left it undisturbed overnight, there would be nothing left behind of the ZNSC other than faint soap ring. Not so with the other two. So far there has always been a visible soapy...