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If its solid enough to cut into bars and not fall apart then do so. Curing should take 4-6 weeks for most, but OO takes much longer to cure. Cutting into bars is necessary to avoid the mold getting to hard and cracking.

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Hello my fellow soap makers, Making a Banana scented batch of CP soap soon. I would like ideas for a natural yellow colorant

How to avoid gel phase If you do not want to go through gel phase, then I suggest using extremely cold water when you mix the lye into it. First, split the lye in water into two separate containers. This will cause chemical reactions to be less severe. Also, directly after mixing put the lye...

update Water to lye ratio water = 22 ounces lye= 9.5 ounces Bars are extremely hard and have lost all slimyness. They pass the "zap" test and now I am only minorly concerned about if the cracks will get worse but I don't think they will. I attribute the hardness of the bar to the...

response The mold was 190 ounces. The liquid ounces of the soap was probably around 170-180 So I took 190 X .4 to get oil amounts. Sorry I used canola oil not castor. So 40-42% canola and 29% olive 23-25% coconut and 3-5% beeswax.

I used about 40% castor 29% olive 24% coconut and about 5-7% Beeswax 5oz peppermint essential oil and crushed peppermint leaves And I used a lye calculator for this and used about 5-6 on the superfat% scale. And the median of suggested amount of water. zap test was fine...doesn't seem to be...

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I have recently completed my first batch of CP soap. I made peppermint/candycane with crushed peppermint leaves for color. I used Castor coconut and olive and white beeswax. Molded well, looked well, smelled great. I was able to cut into bars in 20 hours The bars were slightly...