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If your shower bar is going to be a white, single color, with no design of some sort, you can play around with a lot of different stuff to get more bubbles, since you don't have to worry too much about the soap batter accellerating. If you have oily skin and want a cleansing bar for the...

I have read that aloe juice can be harmful for your liver. It was a science report somewhere stating that (and it was in the news here a long time ago). What does aloe vera do for soap? What is the difference with and without, I guess I mean. I'm thinking, maybe I want to try it. You could buy...

What I did once was that I mixed isopropanol and little bit bronze mica in a small spray bottle. Shook it up and sprayed it on top of my cold process soap (but it will work the same in HP, except remove soda ash, since there is no soda ash to remove). It did a good job in making a metallic shine...

I found that aloe vera contains phenol: "Phenol-containing plant essences can lead to colour changes in cosmetic formulation. This natural process can be prevented with Sodium sulfite". Maybe they haven't used enough sodium sulfite in that juice you have? No, I really have no clue what it can...

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Yes, it is truly horrible what have happened. My thoughts go to the families of the victims. But, as LilyJo said, it will be happening over and over again unless somebody change US gun laws. That is the first thing that has to be done, otherwise it will be no reduction in the frequency and...

@KiwiMoose, does your aloe vera juice contain potassium sorbate? If it does, I read this just now (link under), and potassium sorbate turns to sorbic acid in water. Sorbic acid it is sensitive to UV light and can turn yellow, discolour and darken. But, that is sorbic acid, and I guess when you...

@Chris_S Thank you for your offer to help out with candle or melt making. But, since it is more difficult than just melt wax and add scents, and demands researching, I will not even try. I find soapmaking really difficult, and I don't need anything else that also is difficult. Then I will rather...

@penelopejane Thank you for your advice :-) The strange thing is that I checked the fragrance oil chart an hour ago or so, just to see if I found some new reviews on Eroma scents, and I read your listing for Moroccan Spice, and I thought, hmm, doesn't I have that one? I checked just now, and I...

Thank you, DeeAnna :-) I'm glad you questioned the high saponification value, it would not have been too fun to make lye heavy soap. I can only speak for my rapeseed wax, and it says "hydrogenated rapeseed oil", so I have to think it is just that without anything else added or done to it. I...

Yes, that is a good question. I did try to find something similar as that in a lye calculator, but could not find it. I can see one more time, just press every oil and see if something have a saponification value of 200-240 KOH. And I can see if I can find a more specific value somewhere. But we...

Thank you so much, Becky! Wow, close to palmitic and stearic, hard bar with creamy lather + conditioning, that is more than I could ever hope for :-) I need to test a full bar of my uncured, cut yesterday soap and not the thin sliver I have been testing. I think I probably can use that same...

This is the soap I made tuesday. It is yellowish some places, because of the disappeared gold mica lines. It is peach pink, not at all how it was supposed to look (it was intented to be red, orange and natural soap colour with green and gold mica lines as a simple bowl swirl). But yes, it became...

@penelopejane Thank you so much for those great advices! Then it will be no rice bran oil for me (it is twice as expensive as olive here, so it is not economical to use anyway, but great for cooking). I don't want false trace, for sure, so I will use temps just over 40*C, and a 30% lye...

Hi y'all! I bought rapeseed wax a while ago, but have not used it yet. I don't know the manufacturer or any other information about it, other that is says on the package "Hydrogenated Rapeseed Oil". To contact the UK supplier and ask for more details about their rapeseed wax, that is worthless...

I have made soaps full of shea butter (I don't know the exact percentage, since it was in a mixed product). The amount of shea butter in my finished soap must have been way over 10%. I will guess around 30% or something. I can't say that it does not lather, since my soap have lathered really...

I will make an own post writing what he said. I must just ask him first if that is okey for him. And then I must test my soap that is in the mold right now, to see if I see any "unusual behaviour" that can come from partially hydrogenated vegetable oils in soy wax, as he had experienced. I don't...

This was a very interesting discussion. I have learned a lot, but still almost nothing, since everybody have so opposite experiences with the same things. I guess I just have to make a bunch of soaps and test all theories and others experiences for myself. High water, low water, high vs low lye...

I made a soap with soy wax for the very first time. Or well, my soy wax is not pure, but also have palm wax in it, 20% palm wax I think it was. The supplier sent me the wrong type of soy wax. I was so nervous, i sort of expected a full seize immediately, or something like that. But it did not do...

Thank you Fiona, Marnie and Earlene. Now I know much more. I think I will try rapeseed wax at 10-15% and soap hot, and see how it goes. I need it to be somewhat high, because I have no other hard oils available to me except from coconut oil (which they say is brittle an not hard). I have...