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Hey all it's just another shave soap thread wheeee! I just made up a 100 gram microbatch. Description and details below, I'll be updating on performance and notes. First note: unrefined Shea smell has overpowered my FO. It's kind of a bummer, I should have tried this with refined, but figured...

This is an interesting challenge. I'm playing with SMF right now with only 3 fats (SA, CO, Shea). Shea all the way up to 45% I've got decent numbers. Debating on how high I want my bubbly number right now.

Awesome - another shave soaper on board. :D I've got mango and kokum butter that I've yet to try, thanks for lighting a fire under me haha. I've tried Shea and cocoa butters, with great results. Interesting about the liquid silk, would that be the silk proteins? Looks like you're dialing in...

Fantastic that you've found a source for stearic acid-that is half the battle. Non-palm glycerine is a difficulty for me, and I have not found that yet. It looks like you don't add glycerin so you're good to go there, however if you're interested in trying new things you might need to think...

I have yet to pull the trigger! I will definitely update though, especially Citrus Tree which has come highly recommended.

This!!!

Thanks anyway! I think it's time for me to try to make it.

For me it would be to quickly compare performance between two soaps (specifically shave soaps) with different fats or ratios without wasting too many ingredients. Example-comparing a base recipe combined with 50% lard soap to base recipe combined with 50% chicken fat soap to base recipe + 50%...

Simply melting 2 different batches of soap dough to form one. Apologies if it's a silly question, especially since I've never made soap dough! I probably should make some to get a feel for it.

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

Basic question I've wanted to asked for a while: how easy/hard is it to melt soap dough down? For example if I want to combine two different soaps completely without making design, layers, or confetti like others do on purpose.

That is a NICE looking soap. Thanks for sharing a real world example.

So it's been over a week, any sort of communication from Daystar?

To further enable- they have 1 oz bottles to play with, so half the cost of places that only go down to 2 oz 😂

Awesome, and thanks for sharing. What a unique idea this company had!

By overwhelming demand I've added Karma/Life Lessons. 8-) That's a unique sounding one-added!

Hey Vicki C, can we have an update on Stock Fragrances? Sounds pretty interesting, just wondering on how successful you've been in soaping with their FOs.

Yeah I'm perfectly capable of getting myself into enough trouble lol.

I'm not familiar with Lush, but I do appreciate the feedback. I had grapefruit zest in but removed it for some reason-back on the list! Regarding Bob's Flower Shop, that sounds like an interesting scent to try. Even tho I'm a dude I'm quite interested in finding excellent floral stuff...

Putting in a big ol' samples order to try some stuff out. I specifically wanted to try Citrus Tree, the rest are from suggestions here or my own curiosity.