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My DH finally tracked down some PO for me locally, and I have to admit I was surprised at the bright orange color! Soap is in the gel stage right now and I can't even imagine trying to color this anything but dark brown...?! I am using a 'decadent' Lavender recipe for this soap, but I'm...

hmmm....well, maybe I won't put them in or on the soap then! How do you decorate cured soap with them? Also, I am doing HP, so do you think if I sprinkled the seeds on top once the soap is in the mold they would still turn brown (since the soap will already be cured?)? Thank you for your help...

LMBO!! I'm so glad I asked, thank you!

I've seen lavender soaps with the whole seeds on the top, but to put them in the soap I'm wondering how other people do it? It seems like they would have to be crushed, but I think I vaguely remember seeing lavender soap with whole seeds before also....?

No sarcasm I promise, but why beer?! What is the benefit to using beer in soap? Does it leave any kind of scent behind? I'm really not knocking it, it sounds very interesting, I just wanted to know the reasoning behind it. Thanks! Oh and BTW, the soap is beautiful! I adore that wholesome...

Good, thank you! I had a school function right in the middle of the day today and knew I wouldn't have time to start and finish all at once, so I mixed my lye solution so it would be cooled down by the time I got home, and melted my oils, so they wouldn't be too hot either. I just didn't know if...

So the superfatted oil needs to be listed in the ingredients on Soapcalc, but I can either add all the oils in the beginning, or keep the 5-7% that I wanted to superfat with out and add with the rest of the additives....is that correct? LOL I'm so confused! Because at the top of Soapcalc I...

Can I get my lye solution and oils to room temp before beginning to HP? Or will that cause problems with the HP process? Thanks!

Thank you. So in Soapcalc I put in those %'s for 2 lb. and here is what it came up with: OO 19 oz. CO 4.8 oz Lard 8 oz. I'm still unsure of superfatting; that oil is over and above the other ingredients? I put 7% in the top section for superfatting. Can the superfatted oil be any...

Hi, I was hoping someone would share a good beginner recipe with me that will still offer some nice softening benefits. I don't have PO, only lard. I will HP this soap, and also want to superfat. What would be a good beginner recipe for me to start with? On hand I have: OO...

do you prefer one lye calc over another? I couldn't even figure out how to use soapcalc?!

Krissy, thank you so much! The visual is adorable, and definitely helps me to understand :) So it looks like the lye amount called for in the original recipe really was too much, and that would have nothing to do with how much or how little water would it? It's dependent on the amount of oils...

I halved the lye and water also, not just the oils. I just didn't know if cutting everything in half was right or lye and water would still need to be adjusted differently?

Will anyone share their recipe with me?! I'm a little obsessed to get this right, since my last batch was a disaster! I don't have palm oil and can't locate it anywhere w/o ordering online, so it has to be a recipe that doesn't call for palm, or I'll need to know what I can substitute for PO; I...

Thank you~I just don't understand yet about the percentages; I don't know what I should be aiming for yet, so I've relied on recipes I've found online that people seemed to have success with. I don't even understand superfatting really~what is the purpose of it? How to do it? I know I'm the...

I used a lye calc on Brambleberry's site that gave these numbers: OO 44.2% CO 27.9% Castor 27.9% Lye 3.151 oz liquid 7.1 oz Will rebatching do anything for soap that is lye heavy? Or is that just to fix forgotten/missed ingredients?

ooopsss....it was 16 oz of water, not 12, I'm sorry! I cut the recipe in half; does that affect the lye ratio? Can something like this be rebatched, or will it still not cook out the lumps that I presume are lye?

Recipe was: 12 oz water 6 oz lye 19 oz Olive Oil 6 oz coconut oil 6 oz castor oil I'd read on this forum to mix my EO's in a little bit of jojoba oil to help anchor the scent, so that is the only extra thing I...

So far I've made three batches of HP soap (in the crockpot). The first two seem fine, the one today (Rosemary Mint) seems like it hardened before it had a chance to fully saponify. It went through a beautiful creamy, custardy phase, then mashed potato phase, then I put the lid on and left it...