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I was just wondering whether it's a waste to add both sugar and honey to the same batch of soap. I know sugar is added to increase hardness, but I wasn't certain whether honey added other properties of its own. I'd rather not waste any ingredients if they'll just be doubling up on the same...

This is my third batch, and I really couldn't be happier with it! The colour is 100% from the oils, no additives :D It was my first time gelling, and I'm definitely going to do that more often from now on. I didn't realise gelling made soap look so moist and clear! It was also amazingly...

I use this method when I'm working with resin and silicone, and there's no mess at all. Liquids stay compeltely inside either the pipette or the final container, with none going anywhere else. Is there something specific about FO that would make this process messy? I don't use FOs, so I might...

I don't think you'd need to do any calculations at all, as long as you have an accurate enough scale. 1. Set your pipette onto your scale. 2. Hit tare (or make a note of how much your pipette weighs) 3. Draw FO into your pipette. 4. Set pipette back on scale and see whether you've drawn...

Thanks Bubbles Galore! Adding the cream at light trace sounds like a great idea, and I'll make a note to keep the lye discount (which, just to double-check, is effectively the same as super-fatting, isn't it? Both result in more oils than the lye can completely saponify?) As this is going to...

If I want to use coconut cream in a recipe, can I substitute it 1:1 for the water in the original recipe? I was thinking that, since coconut cream contains fat, perhaps it will work if I swap cream for water and have 0% superfat (instead of the 5% the recipe originally calls for)? If I'm on...

Oops, no, it was meant to be at least 500 grams! Thank you for spotting that for me (though I like to think I would have noticed once it came to weighing things for actual soap-making :oops:)

Oh! That's very good to know - I was expecting vegan soaps to take a bit more tweaking to get a nice balance of features, but after playing around with SoapCalc, I think I can see how both non-vegan and vegan soaps can be complicated or simple. Suet = unrendered fat (with bits of meat and...

Hi all, I'm laying plans for my first ever batch of soap! I've just finished rendering 1kg of suet into beef tallow, and now I'm trying to work out what proportions I want for other oils. So far, I think I've hit on a workable recipe, but I'd love some outside opinions! (Please excuse my...

Hi! I've long been interested in making soap, but somehow never quite got around to it. Recently I was reading about enfleurage, and decided that it sounded perfect for making really interestingly scented soaps from scratch (without the addition of pre-made/store-bought essential oils). I'm...