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I recommend lowering castor to 10% and using a 1.7:1 or 1.8:1 lye:water ratio. As for where to pass the 5% on to, gosh, that’s a tough call. With such a high percentage of cocoa butter, my preference would be to add it to the coconut oil. High cocoa butter may make your soap require a lot of...

Where do you source your fat? I’ve considered approaching the butcher at my favorite supermarket and asking if they have beef fat they might consider passing my way.

What a delightful story to share! To have your grandson experience a market as a seller and pocket the fruits of his labor. Much-cherished memory to relive with him in the future. ❤️

I’ve soaped with NS’s Devious. I recall slight acceleration. Have not soaped with it since (only because I used it for a batch for my mom who no longer likes the scent 🤪). My advice would be to soap at room temperature, sick blend to emulsion, hand stir the FO in with a spatula to very light trace.

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Try heating the solid fats up to around 160-180 and see if you get different results.

How hot do you get your solid fats to when you melt them?

Are you saying heated your fats up to a maximum of 98 degrees to melt? What solids fats do you use?

What stage was your batter when you poured? Emulsion? Light trace? Medium trace?

Geez, every entry is unique and stands alone that choosing three favorites is going to be a mind-thrashing tasks.

Not necessarily. Personally, I enjoy playing around with recipes. It’s 50% of what I enjoy about cold process soap making. The bigger point is that you can use any bar of soap for different uses. I will say that I would not use cold process soap on my hair. And I say this as someone who uses...

Also, make small batches (very small batches) of the recipes you noted and use them after a three month cure. That’s the only way to determine if you like a particular recipe. Soap-making is a very experiential craft. I can’t know the qualities of a soap batch without first making it and...

Thing is, it’s not necessary to have different recipes for specific uses. I use soap pieces to wash dishes. All different formulas jumbled together. Each one does a fine job of washing my dishes (and cleans my stainless steel sink spectacularly well).

I have not. Because I can’t find the box that the soap is in. 😂 It’s in this house…somewhere. Yes, a lot of effort was involved in the making of the design. Very ambitious as a new soap maker.

Update on lather: @AliOop Retested the 100% beef tallow LS. VERY creamy, big bubbles, hands feel really soft after drying. Makes me curious about making a 100% beef tallow batch of cold process soap. 💡

The lather is so-so. My purpose in making 100% tallow is because I have a lot of it and it’s I expensive. Used just 500g of and and am surprised how large the batch is finished. What I find satisfying about the process was that I could basically forget about for a few hours (or days).

Made my very first batch of LS. Learned a lot. Thrilled to have tried something new and different. 100% tallow. The big reveal of cutting cold process soap is obviously missing from the experience.

What a fun project. 100% tallow. Can’t wait to play around with different recipes. Hello, new rabbit hole. 😜

@Misschief #goals Very motivating post! I bet your grandkids think you’re a pretty resourceful woman. Rawr!!

Thank you! it was a good way to use up fragrance oils that are just-so on their own.