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All you guys making soap that you say looks like baby poop 🤣. Let me reassure you. I have a baby and your soap looks a lot better than her poop. 😂

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I have no idea. Maybe when you boiled it there was residual dawn or alconox in your mold that reacted with your soap. Do you do that after every batch?

Had the same thing happen. Bought because their cocoa butter was still a decent price but took a month to get my order. Whenever I emailed them they either didn't respond or said that they were behind.

I've used and like them.

My guess is that it's soap ash. Was the white stuff there when you unmolded or did it form after? Soap ash is purely cosmetic and should come off with a little water or steam. It's caused by lye reacting to water in the air. Soap ash can be tricky. You can make 2 batches not change anything...

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My guess is the October knit/buffalo plaid challenge. I plan on doing the same thing when mine get here.

Zany's no slime bastille soap. Here is the thread and recipe. I haven't tried making it yet but there's a lot of people in this forum who love it.

You should totally do it! I hadn't done any coloring in my soaps until last month. So the challenge was intimidating but my DH encouraged me to try anyway. Worst that happens is that you make soap! Edit: even if you can't participate due to the rules you can still participate in the challenge...

I agree with @Ekuzo. Check the ingredients to be sure. In my experience shortening is usually a combination of things.

If you go to their website it's in oz on there. 1lb (pound) is 16oz, 1oz is about 28g. I've done this math way too much! Both lbs and oz are used to measure weight. Cause America uses special measurements.

You'd be using about .3oz of each. (31*.01 in case your curious about the math.) Sodium citrate is a powder and I put it and sugar/sorbitol in my lye water before the lye and let it dissolve. Once everything is disolved add your lye. I've made a 500g and 1000g version of this recipe at 33% and...

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@Phantomina that is amazing! I saw something similar at a Ren faire demonstration a few years ago. When I went this year they weren't there so I'd love more details! Apparently something like this is what the vikings used to do to their soap or at least that's what the demo people said. I...

@ackosel and @Servant4Christ can I come to your houses! All that sounds amazing! 😄😍 🥧

This is entirely personal preference. I have a non-lard based soap that I love at 7% super fat. For my lard soap I love it at 3-4%. I say start at 5% for non-lard based and 2-3% for lard. If you want it to feel less drying without modifying the recipe you can increase the superfat. Just know...

Nope. I only premix if I'm worried about getting too thick of a trace or if I'm starting with a thicker trace. That's just because it takes longer/ more mixing for the mica to disperse when put directly in. If I do one color I just dump in and go.