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yeah, that's what I'm leaning towards...

I made a batch yesterday and one today after a month break of soaping (too much soap! The problem now is that the wire on my cheese cutter broke and replacements are hard to come by so if anyone has any ideas, I'm open to try...

I make mine on individual molds, started with 200 grams to see how many molds i would fill and kept upping the batch size until I filled all my molds without excess, so yeah, trial and error.

I also use it on my salt bars and sometimes on my regular bars at 5-10% (if i run out of almond i use avocado, not the same, but i like both).

Honestly i was never a believer of EO having any therapeutic effect. But even if they did, other than the smell i dont believe anything would survive saponification. So to me using EO is more about the label appeal and that some FO’s are not quite the same smell as the EO.

I just feel like there is a lot of people out there that makes you feel like this is radioactive and you will instantly drop dead if you inhale even just a bit of fumes and a hole will form in your arm in seconds if you get a splsh (by the way, just rinse the splash with water!). And it was...

There are several topics about lye concentrations here because i think that is something confuses us a lot of people at the begining, i was one of them. I read that you plan to mix your lye outside, while that is fine and a bunch of people do it, my preference is to just mix it on the sink...

No, I was asking because that number will give you uneven numbers on the recipe and to me its a bit of a paint to weight .34 grams ha! But thats just me. Yes, i noticed about the lye because thr default on cals is as % of oils and that is the setting you kept. But something i learned here is...

Any reason why you are going for 470 grams of oils? And for that water as % of oils ratio? You generally dont want to go with castor over 5-10%. Coconut can be quite drying, depending on your skin. I use 30% with no problems but a lot of people wont go over 15-20%. I would suggest you google...

I learned to cook by myself and i do very well without any meassuring. However my best friend... he prides himself on being a fine cook, and i mean, whatever he makes USUALLY has a good taste. But OMG you wouldnt believe the amount of mess he makes, the amount of grease he uses, the amount of...

Thanks, i'll try something similar! For me both are a bit on the "overpowering" side, but probably too much peppermint would be, well, too much.

May I ask how much pepermint did you use in relation with the rosemary? I have both of them but never thought about combining them.

I am another one who doesn't own a thermometer, also soap at room temperature.

@DeeAnna i will do some more research in to it to try it. Thank you! @SaltedFig i still dont have a crockpot and since my batches are also on the small side i can make do with the pots i do have. I’ll check those threads. I am jist waiting for some more supplies to arrive since I’m almost out...

Ha! You can do that? Truth be told I just researched about HP at the very begining of my soap making adventure and since everyone talked about using a crockpot i just ditched the idea. Butusing bain marie I could do (right now my soaping “studio” doesnt have a stove, just a microwave!) thanks...

Honestly i just went for the cheapest but also the stickblender that had detachable parts and was stainless steel. Have no idea what whattage it is. Yes you need to be accurate, specially on smaller batches. Mine has grams (two decimals), but also i always use grams cause oz is not my thing.

What people are responding to was the “because of the cure time” part of your initial post. Cure time and saponification time are two different things. Yes, your HP soap is safe to use. No one here is debating that. What is expected about the soap after saponification is a good question and...

Hello and welcome from Mexico to Mexico haha!

Yep. I sometimes spray all sides of the cut bars, sometimes ash will still appear, sometimes just a speay everywhere gets rid of it.

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