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I made the soap with the exotic oils, because I wanted to. I have dry skin, and I love the left over oils that stay on my skin when I wash my face. In my bath: they are pure luxury! I am worth it! ;)

It’s hot process. So it’s my understanding g the salonification is finished. I do it because I read to do it with hot process.

AliOop: you are right. I put the soap back into the freezer for 3-4 more hours. Then it sliced, just fine. Lesson learned. I usually make the individual bars of soap. Not so experienced with the loaf soap...Than you!

All percents below: cocoa butter: 5.25 coconut oil: 5.25 olive oil: 15.79 rice bran oil: 15.79 shea butter: 5.26 argan oil: 2.63 Avocado oil: 7.89 Castor oil: 10.53 palm oil: 31.58 lye: 8.61 water: 21.09 stirred until trace. lid on in crock on low heat. heated until around 160 degrees. Fragrance...

I make hot process soap. i follow the recipes here and online. I made this dry skin soap with lots of exotic oils in it. I went to unmold it 12 hours after molding it. And the top part came off, leaving the bottom 2/3 the gooey mess. What did I do wrong? I've not had this happen before. I'll...

Thank you. That helps!

What is PPO?

I use Neem leaves in my soap recipes occasionally. Take the amount of Neem leaves you want, put into a blender. I add cinnamon ground in equal amounts to the blender. Blend together, until they are fine. Use it as an additive in your soap. Add it into your lye calc as to "additions", the...

Thank you for your reply! I am letting it sit on butcher paper...and I wipe it with paper towels each time I turn them over...They smell lovely by the way! They are quaint looking, but that's what hot process is: more rustic. They have dried flower petals and herbs on them...

This is my third batch of soap. I am using hot process, as I don't have space to cure soap for 4-6 weeks (cold process). Everything went fine, I used Crisco, olive oil, and coconut oil, plus lye of course. EXCEPT, my recipe said to add the fragrance oil after I achieved the 200 degrees, and was...

Don’t dump it down the drain if you are on a septic system.