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It was pretty hard when I got home, but I managed to cut through it, but it wasn't easy :p It looked pretty rough. So I had to see DOS for myself, and I did. It took 3 weeks, it was poured on May 20 :/ DOS being a real threat, you weren't kidding. Less than 1 month! My first time seeing it...

0% SF, 37% lye concentraion,plain water, plain canola, salt @ 1tsp PPO, I didn't use my thermometer, but it was hot. Setting 1 on my hob melts my oils, and I've been pouring in the lye solution when it's.... hot. I don't know. thermometer is next on the buy list lol. A milk carton.... I...

It was briesoft when I unmolded it, but not when I cut it 8 hours later. Def. looking @ wire cutters! I think my sloppy cutting technique and improv tools aren't helping

So I wanted to test out 100% canola soap out of pure curiousity, and it did turn out terribly. I thought it was safe to unmold after 48 hours. Boy, was I wrong. It's amazing how much differently even just another 5% of a hard oil changes the consistency, unmold, and cut times... I'm letting it...

I cut them like all the other soaps I do.... the bar usually sticks to the knife- this time, the top of the bar would be stuck to the knife, and the bottom looks how it does... I'm suspecting that I wasn't holding the knife at a perfect 90 degrees, and that how my knife edge is beveled might be...

Jeez, I should definitely stop pressing my fresh soap scraps info funny shapes with my bare hands.... that's how I planned on keeping an eye on how it behaves in a bathroom :/ on second thought... my hand is a bit dry :0

cpop is looking more and more attractive everyday... lesson learned.. I will definitely be applying this advice to my next slow movers!! thank you :)

Sadly, a regular 20cm chef's knife. Tried both pressing down firmly with even pressure with the flat base of the blade, as well as "rocking" the blade from the tip down to the flat part... Both kinda messed up this softer soap. I think it's time for an upgrade... Maybe could get into some...

it was still soft like brie cheese, at 18 hours :( I didn't think it would have been ready in 4 hours from that! (unmolding and cutting @ 24 hrs was the plan) Edit; just checked my notes i forgot that I took. I poured it at 12:00 PM on May 20, unmolded 14 hours later at 2:00 AM on May 21, and...

Hello all I have a question about this batch, I hope someone can help me diagnose the problem.. It was mostly soft oils, so I had what I suspect was false trace. I poured it into the mold, it separated, so I poured it back into the pot, stick blended it more, and poured it back into the mold...

yess!!! as of this morning, they all look the same! I'm relieved :) do you know why this "moon rise" effect evened out, but it seems that other ppl's partial gels were permenant?

just cut a batch made out of rapeseed and coconut oil with coffee ground exfoliant in it...and I got my first case of partial gel :(

It was neither, I'm just a straight noob lol This is what I'm going to go with! It makes sense, I hearing you confirm it makes me feel a lot more confident! hahah. thank you :))) I had so much from messing around on soapmakingfriend/soapcalc before I bought my first bottle of lye :p

This was counterintuitive to me- I would have thought things that would increase the shelf life of oil, would, in turn, increase the shelf life of soap made from it. If an oil goes longer without going rancid, wouldn't the soap, take longer to develop DOS? This does seem to be the case, my...

This is definitely important!! So the calculator I prefer has canola (I assume Low-O) , and HO canola.... the rapsol I'm using is, from my understanding, Mid-O. Which should I choose in my soapcalculator? Thank you so much- I would have surely chosen the "rapeseed" option, and ended up with...

just cut these guys: a 500g batch of 75% lard, 20% coconut oil 5% castor, @ 5% superfat!! Very excited about this! Got a chance to use my new squirrel stamp! I wish i had a better camera :p I think maybe I'll give this a shot today! ~30% rapeseed oil seems like a nice experiment. and it...

I don't know, I think it varies based on geography. But the rapeseed oil I get here is definitely edible, it's sold for cooking @ the supermarkets. From what I understand, canola is genetically engineered rapeseed. This makes me think they should behave similarly, but that's a big assumption...

Someone talk me out of this (80% rapeseed, 15% coco, 5% castor, 0%SF, salt+sugar in liquid) Is this a GUARANTEED case of DOS? Waste of Lye, water, time, energy, space, oil, molds?

I will not worry! :) Othüna and I are going to get very familiar with one another! I am debating with myself whether or not I should be eating this stuff too. I have no trouble eating "cheap" olive oil, and "cheap" canola, and "cheap" sunflower oil.. It's 1/3 of the price! I'm not always the...

I never took notice of the brand Schneekoppe before today, but they seem to be at the same price point as all the other brands that I have access to at the moment(dm. rossman, rewe) I wasn't swayed by the brand name, this is the only brand aldi carries, and most time what I can get, only the...