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To be more clear, I use the same amount extra water whether I start with one cup dry rice or three. In a scaled up recipe you might have roughly the same amount of water evaporating as in your small recipe, and the rest that isn't necessary to dissolve the lye is just extra water in your soap. A...

https://classicbells.com/soap/cure.asp Did your troubles start after scaling up your batch size by any chance? I noticed your recipes are labeled "crock pot..." and I just thought of how I do my rice: 1:1 rice to water, plus 1/4 cup water. The extra quarter cup is for the water I know will...

Haha, someone else can school you on cure times. I don't have the patience ; ) Good luck!

I don't know much about hot process soap (I do cp, so I saw the water content and thought, "hey, there's the problem!"). If your recipes and technique are the same, maybe it is an ingredient problem. Fragrances can cause trouble... Also your soaps are colorful, what are you adding there and how...

I aired out the house yesterday when it was almost 70°F. Snowed this morning. Good ol' March.

Do any of you slab molders have a special technique to cut your slab mold soaps? Mine always come out wonky shaped, so I rarely do them anymore.

Hmm, those sound more like tall & chubby bars ;)

Oddly enough, even my silicone lined loaf molds from amazon are 2.75 inches wide. Without the liner they are 3x3x10.25. Oh well. I like consistency too, and it helps me from splurging on all the pretty single cavity molds I see. I am out of control with the fragrances though, just no self...

Welcome Andy :)

I drew out some rectangles for soap face sizes and the 2.5x3.5 looks really good. I'm reluctant to make new molds, but I think I will eventually, otherwise I'm stuck with 2.75 for one of the sides. I don't sell either, just lazy and stingy I guess ;) Weird, I tried to edit a post and all the...

A few years ago my dad's girlfriend hid real eggs around my house for an Easter egg hunt, for us adult kids (?!!) - and couldn't remember how many she hid...... or where..... in our new fixer upper house that had holes in the walls, unpacked boxes, and so forth. We searched for hours in the fear...

Are there trends in soap size? What are your soap dimensions? I had a lemony batch of soap that was an ok scent, but the thought of getting through a whole bar just seemed tedious, so I cut them smaller. Suddenly the bars seemed to smell so much nicer! And I started doing it with my other scents...

Our local stores look back to normal! It is a nice morale boost. We are well stocked at home now one way or another, but it takes some of the stress away all the same. Best to everyone ♡

Welcome :)

It's been a bit of a rough day here in New York. Over 3000 infected now. It is just the beginning of course, but the reality of it only hits us in stages. All our friend and family gatherings have been canceled for the next 45 days or so, and we know that in reality the whole summer will pass...

You knitters and crocheters amaze me. My hands are slow, my stitches are clumsy and I'm too impatient for anything large. I did order a darning foot for my sewing machine though so I can try free motion quilting during the shelter-in-place order we've come to expect. I have a quilt top ready to...

So 1 fl oz water weighs 1 oz If 1 fl oz soap weighed 2 oz, then you could fill up your molds with water and multiply that weight by 2. And that is how much soap you would weigh out to fill the same volume. For example.

I was thinking we could do a little math so you could measure with water :)

How much does one fluid oz of your soap weigh?

DH got caught up in the shopping frenzy yesterday, and we now have a year's supply of pasta and corn chips .... but we can't find toilet paper anywhere, hohum, how long do 4 rolls last? Our prepper neighbors offered us to room with them, to protect us (they are well armed and hidden from the...