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I really have an issue with fleece fabric. That is to me the worst ever material. I was working in a clothes shop two years ago, and I had to touch jackets and such made out of fleece several times a day. Fleece is so awful that it does actually make my hands feel dirty or dusty afterwards. I do...

If your lye is 38% of oils, which is standard in most calculators, that will be quite a high amount of water, and it can make your soap soggy if you don't cure it enough. If you use 38% lye concentration (not 38% of oils), your water amount is not at all too high. But soap needs to cure anyway...

I once tried to bleach red palm oil by cooking it. But I gave up, since nothing happened. Maybe I did not cook it long enough, or the temperature was too low, or anything else. I did not add orange peel or anything. But, the smell was totally horrible! Like you were cooking old motoroil or...

@Mobjack Bay Now I understand what you mean. Yes, the translucency looking is a close up from the side of the soap, where the oil (or what it is) comes oozing out because of overheating. But, it is very pink at the sides, and that is because the mica line that were supposed to stay in the soap...

That smell sounds like when you heat red palm oil. An awful smell of old motor oil burning or something. You did not use a drop of red palm oil in your recipe?

That soap is just beautiful and very cool!

I did cut the soap just now, because I was afraid to wait any longer because it might be rock hard from the vinegar, or the rapeseed wax. It was not hard at all to cut. I tried to get a photo where the drops of oil inside could show, but it would not show on the photo anyway. The mica line have...

Yes, thin milky lather and waxy rinse off, exactly how mine is too. No, I don't find it luxurient at all. My other soaps are, those with shea butter. But I feel this soap is conditioning like soft oils. But not luxurious, no. At least not yet. My skin feels quite nice afterwards, but it may...

I have replied to him, so we'll just have to wait and see if we can find out what it is all about.

Yes, it is very interesting. I must mail him and ask more. Yes, I wonder what he knows and not knows too. I will mail him immediately. I have read mixed things about Crisco, that it is great but also that it can make soap full of DOS. We don't have Crisco here at all, so I have not tried it.

Here the answer to our differences probably is, you cured vs uncured soap. Yes, a sort of a slimy feeling, I would say that too, but not the castile sort of slimy either. It became less slimy the more I washed with it. Maybe I misunderstood that slightly slimy feeling to be conditioning. I feel...

I did also use high water (I normally don't do that). Our rapeseed wax can be made differently, and our recipes are not the same. Yours is cured while mine was barely unmolded. We probably have different water in our sinks, I have soft water and you have maybe hard, perhaps that makes a...

Hmm. What to think about that.... Okey, first I had some oils at the bottom (I unmolded the leftovers that was scraped into one of the large mixing cups. It became a big soap). I guess that oil inhibited the lather. I washed 4 times in a row, no lather first but and got better and better lather...

@gloopygloop This was very interesting to read. I had the same experience, very slow trace and so on. Mine is not even cut yet, so I am exited to try it after a cure (not that I have patience to wait 4 weaks, but I will at least wait a few days). I used 30% rapeseed wax, 5% soy wax, 15% CO, 45%...

People in those Youtube videos are also adding very generous amounts of extra water to their soaps. I have seen that, and I have seen some of them also complaining about glycerin river. Maybe they should make stronger TD mixtures, or whatever else than squirting half of the big bottle in one...

@Penelope, I will write you an email, have just not come so far yet. I had visitors the day after I got the email, and last night I smelled all my fragrance oil. Can you believe that I had not opened many bottles? I though I had, but I had not. So I did it yesterday, and took some notes. I do...

I now discovered, when I was to shut the side from Mother Nature Goodies, that my rapeseed wax does not at all look like what they have pictured. Definately not. Mine is not in beads like that, but in big, cut up chunks. If it is supposed to look like that on the picture, I'm a little suspicios...

They write some info in the description for the wax that I have: https://mothernaturesgoodies.co.uk/rapeseed-wax-pure-natural-sustainable-wax-for-container-and-jar-candles/ Not that I will straight up recommend buying from them, because I had some problems. But I got my products in the end...

I did do something stupid as well, very stupid. I did not make a top at all, just left it as it was after the drop swirl, and made some drops on the top with the remaining mica in oil. I sat it in a plastic shoe box in a sunny window to gel. It did gel and all that, but the oil drops on the top...

WOW, WOW!!! I'm shocked! Fluid soap, can you imagine! I'm sold on that rapeseed wax, for sure. I have never had anything looking like fluidity in my soapmaking, except for my very first soap that was not a complete disaster (I guess it was my third or something around that). It was a castile...