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Stop wearing latex gloves and don’t wear gloves with powder inside. Chronic exposure to latex usually causes a latex allergy. Powdered latex gloves increase the risk of inhaling the latex particles. Latex gloves and other products are no longer used in healthcare facilities for these reasons...

I know. I wasn’t finished and my fat fingers hit the wrong button. I corrected it.

Try Reading Technology Novels RRRR (I make myself 😂)

They're All Characteristically Knuckleheads GOOF

I am really sorry you are feeling so overwhelmed. It’s tough to run a business. That’s why I don’t anymore.

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Dang It, Nellie! Enough! BELL

Thanks, dcmcgee5034! Y’all have been so supportive!!

Here’s an image I edited for sharpness and definition so you can see what I’m talking about.

Lard, Goat Milk, Sorbitol, Sodium Gluconate and Sodium Lactate: with undissolved SG & Sorbitol. You probably can’t see here, but I can see barely discernible white speckles.

Tomorrow.

I unmolded the soaps today and they seem OK. They look and feel nice and smooth and didn’t feel gritty or scrubby when I washed my hands with a small piece. Maybe when I added the lye solution to the oils with the undissolved particles the lye dissolved them. Or maybe the thickened batter just...

Rats! You’re so funny! Please don’t feel bad. I’m really learning a lot and for that I am grateful and happy.

Thank you AliOop! It has definitely been a learning experience. I’m especially happy with the fact that I’ve mastered the goat milk/lye process. Unfortunately the sodium Gluconate I’m using is a powder as is the sorbitol. I’ll report back once I unmold.

Gosh, I sure appreciate all your advice, @dcmcgee! I went ahead and mixed the oils with undissolved additives with my GM and lye solution and SB’d to medium trace then poured into individual cavity molds. I’ll see how it turns out tomorrow. I sure am glad I’m making all my mistakes now before I...

Ali, do you use Na Lactate if you’re using vinegar?

Could that also be ricing from a naughty FO?

I’m in the middle of making the recipe I posted above. I added the Na Gluconate and Sorbitol to my warm (133F) oils and one or both of these additives are not dissolving. I’ve stick blended forever and even heated the oils up to 150 and SB’d again and there are still particulates settling to the...