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Also ask someone who is handy with a saw to make some for you

Could be many reasons. Post a picture and full recipe along with anything like temperatures (approximately if you don't measure). I've not suffered it myself, but false trace usually results in a separation if I remember correctly, which looks more like a porridge than just oil pooling on...

Hi from a fellow Brit (albeit an expat)

I want to eat them! They do look gorgeous. But by storing them differently, I think it would be in a way which isn't really feasible, especially if you wanted to actually use one - vacuum sealing might delay it a while, but it would only start up again when unsealed. I do think your best...

Sodium citrate is used in our kitchen a lot, so we often grab some from my soaping supply in a pinch. But not too long ago I seasoned a Dutch oven using some lard from my soaping ingredients. Most stuff that we have is not mixed use (mainly because our kitchen pots are far too nice for me to...

Although 2x booth fee from takings is most likely more than a wasted day, when you take out the cost of actually making the soap and time spent/equipment etc.

I can understand not leaving it when the look of the soap is also part of your process. As an example, my latest "chocolate orange" soap for Christmas gifts is only "chocolate" because the orange colour I was aiming for turned out brown instead! I am really not a good person to reference when it...

Out of curiosity, is that 4x booth fee based on the takings from the day, or from the profit of the day (with cost of product and time spent already removed)?

I think no matter what you do it will most likely happen at some point unless they are stored differently. It's part of what cocoa butter does

I found something that works well by accident, for those who can't get borax too easily (EU soapers!) - a salt bar with a 5% superfat. Certainly not one for general use or a daily shower, but it cuts through grease like a charm

I might be one of the fee who ignore it. When I give a soap away I let them know that it's just cosmetic. But then I make fairly plain looking soaps usually because I (and no attack or anything on anyone who does multiple colours and swirls and so on) I want people to enjoy my soap for the...

Looks like soda ash - just a cosmetic issue

With the milling, they take strands of soap (soap noodles) and compress them at a fairly high pressure. Sometimes more than once (hence some soaps are triple milled). I don't know exactly why from a science point of view, but the process takes what would be a fairly "meh" soap if done cp/hp and...

Made soap! I only make it when I need it, and I make 8kg batches - so I don't actually make soap too often at the moment

Can't hang on to soap when using it: "So I've been sending soap to my brother in prison............"

The reiterate what Alioop said, unless you know your recipe and how it behaves quite well you should check in with the soap regularly. Making a change to the recipe can very well make a difference to how long it takes to firm up (or get too firm to cut!) so while experience will let you leave it...

I make very simple bars that fit in the hand - not huge in any of the 3 dimensions, but it can slip out sometimes even then just not in a way that makes it unusable. My bars are approximately 7.8cm X 6.2cm X 2.3cm and that seems to work even with my wife with smaller hands.

It's free of the harsh chemicals found in other cleaners.........but contains a very harsh chemical that most other cleaners don't even consider using!

So much wrong in these few sentences, but I'll just go with pointing out that the inci for saponified lard is sodium lardate, not sodium tallowate.

For me the strangest thing was knowing if it was done or not. The texture was so different from other hp that I did that I was so unsure about it being done. Be prepared to do the "Ztaged Zafety Zap Tezt" as it may very well not look done to you in comparison to how other batches looked done