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I love it!

I have goats too! I started with Nigerian Dwarfs and now have a couple Nubian/Alpine crosses as well. I hope your new adventure goes smoothly

Grain prices have skyrocketed, and you have to feed grain to lactating goats so they keep producing milk without losing weight. Higher grain costs makes higher milk costs

I allow it to saponify first, then clean it off.

Hooray! I hope she’s on her way to a complete recovery now!

Yes, I’m talking about my water pipes/plumbing.

I don’t like high super fat because my pipes don’t like high super fat. I recommend a low super fat like 1-3% and lowering the amount of coconut oil instead of trying to fix a high coconut oil recipe with pipe-gumming superfat. Just my 2 cents

I’ve learned that dissolving my honey in distilled water then freezing it before adding the lye let’s all the heating drama happen before it becomes soap, and it hasn’t heated my soap batter so far since I started doing honey in my lye solution. I got the idea from IrishLass’s honey soap here...

I recently tried freezing my honey dispersed in distilled water and adding lye to that along with my frozen milk cubes. It did get hot and change color to reddish brown, but it didn’t volcano and the soap batter was lovely to work with as all the heat drama had already happened in the lye solution.

I went ahead and made the soap at 74F oils and 110F lye. The lye solution included frozen milk and honey, which got quite hot, so I waited for it to cool to 110F before starting to mix with the oils. I wanted it to warm up my oils that had cooled more than I wanted them to in my cool garage. I...

I made soap after a 6month hiatus. I felt good to soap again

Gorgeous ombré!

I’m trying to use up some Shea butter, mango butter, and cocoa butter that are old. I know old oils can trace quickly, as can Shea normally. I’m wondering what temperature you would recommend to use for a recipe with 29% Shea butter, 15%mango butter, 23%cocoa butter, 28% coconut oil, and 5%...

Congratulations on the new baby!

Good to know!

I use the cheapest honey I can get. I hope you mean sodium hydroxide, not natrium hydroxide.

Thanks, @KiwiMoose

Thank you! @cmzaha what should I dissolve the charcoal in? Water or oil?

For a good pure black how much activated charcoal should I use?

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