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Is this literally soaking oats in water? I’m so fascinated by what I’m reading from everyone

Have you made a 100% sweet almond oil soap? I’ve read Castile soaps can be slimy with no or little latter but wondered about an almond oil one. Would love to hear your suggestions if you have five minutes

I gave it three more weeks and wow what a difference! Way better. I‘m still going to try different oils, I have a lard based one curing as we speak but I’m much happier with this one now

hiya. I don’t think we’ll be lacking in soap again 😂

Thanks!

Thanks everyone ☺️

thank you for your reply, I’m a newbie, only one batch so far and i tried olive oil (70%) and coconut oil (30%) but the feedback from other members is its perhaps too drying and it certainly irritated my skin so I’m leaving it to cure for longer and see what happens. I’m looking for a bar which...

Hello I’m a newbie. I joined this forum maybe a month ago and have found it really useful and the members really helpful so far. I’m one batch in, a few teething problems but absolutely hooked. I’m not planning to sell and my interest stemmed from only using soap and once COVID 19 reached...

I’m hoping someone with a few minutes could take a look over this recipe idea and let me know their thoughts 200g cocoa butter 50% 50g shea butter 12.5% 75 g sweet almond oil 18.8% 75g castor oil 18.8% lye 51g water 102g super fat 5% lye and water worked out using the soap calculator...

Thanks all. I tried this recipe based on successfully using the commercial blend. Of course there’s no way of knowing their ratios. i believe the water is soft here but I can certainly give the cure longer and try other blends thank you for the reply, I’m going to experiment with percentages...

Hi, I’m just starting to make soap and my first batch has had a four week cure. I used 100g coconut oil, 500g olive oil and essential oils - rose geranium, lavender and bergamot. I’m not allergic to any of these ingredients individually and have used this oil blend in moisturiser for approx 6...

Are you happy with how it cuts? I’m intrigued

Great thanks for the replies. I’ll put them to some other use instead and stick with oils for smelliness

Hi hoping someone can advise... I’m new to soaping so learning every batch which is great but also looking to avoid making obvious mistakes and wasting ingredients I’m interested to know if dried herbs and flowers can be used at the trace stage and what level of fragrance one could hope for...

I’m here to learn, thanks looks like I was lucky. But won’t be making that particular mistake again 😯

Thanks 👍🏻

great tips thank you. I dropped the water content and took care timing the blender, also I worked faster this time - the lye water did heat up so maybe I left it too long??? I don’t know. But they all conspired to work and I have to loaf tin batches of soap on its way!

Ok thank you. I’ll try that. I’m planning a second batch next week using a loaf mould this time. I found the individuals too fiddly personally. i have t actually felt the soap with bare hands yet but will check later. I didn’t think it would solidify but it was firm enough to unmould easily...

80g lye and and 195g water. This is how it looked yesterday. Very wobbly I know

Yeah it was sodium hydroxide