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Can you explain your process? You added your powdered TD into the batch oils, correct, and then zhushed with the blender to disperse? Did you burp the blender?

Yes, you can also add td to lye solution and blend first (if it's "water dispersable"). I recommend going the oil route, your colors will be less vibrant, more pastel though so keep that in mind.

Here’s one of my favorite blues: peacock by mad micas. It’s actually based on iron oxide and chromium green oxide… go figure! I know it's more of a teal but I love it. The blueberry soap is ultramarine based blue, twilight by mad micas…not the best example because I didn’t add enough IMO, but...

Don't talk like that! We aren't dumb just because we are inexperienced with something! With time, you can test the different oils and see what differences you notice when using different oils. These numbers above are a good starting point, and with experience you will get a feel for what they...

I think we all have to keep in mind, many concepts in soap making are simplified so that beginners don't have to have a degree in chemistry to understand them. Saying that castor oil adds bubbles isn't correct. It's not a good bubble maker on it's own. Only when combined with other oils does it...

I would add that RBO also about twice as much accelerating unsaponifiables as sunflower.

I’m guessing you use a wire cutter? Using a knife to cut the soap will probably take care of most of this. If you still prefer to use the wire cutter, timing your cut differently might help as well. I find I get worse wire rash when I cut too soon.

Anyway they were saponified, that’s the Sodium salt of a fatty acid part…you can read the end of the definition I gave where it discusses hydrolysis of the oils first….but sodium stearate is just saponified stearic acid, in fact it’s in your soap too! You just can’t list it as such because you...

I'm still failing to understand how this isn't saponified fatty acids... or how that verbiage is flawed (from sciencedirect.com, the first google result that popped up) Saponification- Saponification is the formation of a metallic salt of a fatty acid; such a salt is called a soap. The reaction...

I kind of feel bad for the girl...but I'm glad she still sings (at a more reasonable schedule for community living).

Note: with your butter amount, this soap will likely be a fast mover. The one down side of RBO is that it also hastens trace. All of this combined...if you want to get fancy with your designs, you'll have to test out if that is achievable for you.

Maybe try something like this? If you wanted to add hemp, you could do something like this... Edit: or use the sweet almond...no 16 isn't "bad" . Make sure to use fresh oils and including a chelator will also help to lower DOS risk

This increases the risk for DOS. Anything over 15 is riskier. Hemp is probably what is pushing it up.

Can I jump on the bad neighbor bandwagon? The guy comes on our property to snoop around...haven't caught him in a while...but we are going to put up more cameras...sigh. Calls the city on us every chance he gets...I don't know why he can't just get a life. We're quiet, mind our own business...

I will promote Sodium Gluconate till the cows come home! Love it! I used to use at .5% but now at 1%. For me, citric/citrate left a crystalline layer on the outside of my soaps which I didn't like aesthetically or texturally. I think I was using 2% at the time...

Any reason you're making so much? That's a huge batch of something you don't know how it's going to turn out till 6+ months...

1% rice bran oil isn't going to do much, 5% may...but it's a great oil and affordable so I'd up it, I'd use 15% or more (just watch the linoleic+linolenic in soapcalc). I've used anywhere between 10-30% and I love the results. My main liquid oils are olive and rice bran and they play well...

As I highlighted above, the beauty bar has sodium oleate, sodium stearate, and sodium laurate. So there are saponified fatty acids. I actually am finding ingredient list for the original beauty bar that list sodium tallowate and sodium palmitate, so I'm not sure if the formula has been changed...

I would say that it's more than 95% marketing. Men's skin isn't that different than women's (they do make more oil), but everyone has their own preferences with soap. Looking at the ingredients of the regular dove beauty bar and the men's care bar...the list is basically identical. I...

If you unmolded in 10h and didn't smush the loaf up 😂 ...I think it's safe to say it gelled