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Thank you so much! I’ve read about glycerin rivers but didn’t realise they might look like that. I did insulate my soap in hopes of promoting gel phase for no other reason than impatience and reading that it helps set up faster. As I’m making more batches I’m trying to slow things down and have...

Thank you! I will try the 33% concentration as you suggest. For the lye soapcalc said I needed 190g water and 70g NaOH. I mixed 70g ice and 70g NaOH, then mixed 20g honey with 120g water, then slowly added that to the lye. I had visions of blowing the roof off my house but thankfully that part...

Well this is new. My soap is weeping, a LOT. I’ve read quite a few posts about ‘weeping’ this morning and think this is due to overheating. I’m going to have another go but going to try working on the lye concentration instead of soapcalc’s default 38% water.

I decided to leave well enough alone and have just thrown together a sample batch minus glycerin. I did 50/50 lye, then made up the water with dissolved honey and prayed nothing bad would happen. So far nothing bad has happened. And now we wait 🤣

Aaah, that makes sense. I did see some snippets that mentioned people being sensitive to it. Thanks for the pointer about not adding glycerin, I was about to raid my baking supplies, even though I’m not 100% convinced that glycerin and glycerine are exactly the same thing.

Hello All. I’m probably venturing beyond my skill set but my colleague mentioned having sensitive skin and how only a couple of soaps work for him. I thought I might try to make him something he can use but would appreciate advice on a couple of things. I think I understand what most of the...

Thank you, that’s good to know. I’m probably over thinking things and need to settle down to be honest. It’s just there’s so much out there and I want to try it all 🫣

Hello! Not urgent at all, but I’m about to make some soap samples to test essential oils, which I’ve never used before, because my only (limited) experience has been with fragrance oils. Once I have made these little pucks, is there anything I should do to store them so they don’t contaminate...

Thank you both 🙂 this is so much fun. I wasn’t aiming for prosciutto but I’m glad I got there.

Thank you both 😀

I was going to describe it as a slippery slope, but the drop is completely vertical. I made this last night using up the leftover sodium hydroxide from years ago and three different colours. It’s giving me meat dress vibes and I guess I didn’t mix the white in properly because it has speckles...

Hello All. I thought I should introduce myself as I’ve been hoovering up information from this site without adding anything of my own, which seems a little unfriendly. I made my first two batches of soap about six or so years ago. Then I inadvertently became owned by an elderly cat and I didn’t...