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I experimented with the Ciaglia technique after a spectacularly failed salt soap. 😭 Thanks @AliOop, @Ekuzo, @2lilboots, and @bookworm42 for diagnosing the reason for the failure and helping me figure out a solution. The ciaglia’d soap more closely resembles what I was trying to obtain. Now just...

What’s this and is it purely cosmetic? This batch of soap was from my early efforts. I don’t have this issue with subsequent efforts.

Anyone see this from Tellervo? It’s not quite rebatch. I think someone in the video thread called it Caligula?

Thanks for the link!! I was just doing some searching about rebatching. I had fears about oven processing so I’ll have tho check that link out! Question- this soap I’m gong to rematch is too soft to grate. It probably didn’t have enough lye to properly suponiry. Do I need to combine it with...

Good to know!! Looks like I’ve got a long weekend to make my first batch of rebatched soap!! 🧼🍯👩🏽‍🍳

Yeah - I've was just thinking about that. My "bad soap" box is overflowing now. But I don't have a pot or a slow cooker that's dedicated to soap. They should be dedicated to soap...right?

Thanks!! Just need to be more careful 😟

Yeah, I think it had something to do with how much lye I didn’t add to the soap. I should’ve been able to spot it myself, but sometimes you need an extra set of eyes. Thanks!

Good luck with that glass of wine. I could actually use one right now! But going back to peanut butter soap, I just can’t erase the vision in my head from the Anne Margaret scene in the movie Tommy where she’s covered with all kinds of food products in a bathtub.

oh no...peanut butter soap is a thing? SMH!!!

Hummm, you make a lot of good points but shouldn't the soap calc make the adjustment? Now that I'm thinking about it, I've had the same problem before when I tried to scale a recipe to this specific large mold. Maybe if I look up the manual way to calc the lye I'd have better success? Good...

I use sodium citrate I hadn’t noticed the difference with the lye. And I had thought somehow there was a problem with the lye that I didn’t catch.

I have a recipe that I really like and I wanted to scale it up a salt soap recipe that proves very successful. The photographs show you the small batch and the large batch recipes. The large batch still hasn’t hardened and it’s been more than 24 hours. It’s soft, and there’s a lot of...

Amen!! I couldn’t have said it better myself!!!

Yes it is!!! 😍

I thought I was so special today! Intended to make a large (for me) batch of salt soap made with paprika infused OO! I also was trying to figure out how to use 40x aloe powder. (yes, should be simple but I can't do ANYTHING past basic math. Percentages and ratios make my head spin. And not it a...

I got this conversion excel sheet from somewhere a while back. The darn thing isn't working now. Anyone see the original or know how to fix it? Column D1 and and D8 should be the same. :-(

Aloe powder at what rate per PPO?

About 4 weeks. Still new at soaping and have an impatient problem. I’ll experiment a bit at a time as you suggested. Make a small batch just changing the coconut oil and the castor percentages. Another batch with changing the castor oil and CO percentages and adding additional sugar. Next batch...