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I have worked with C3 for candles, and I have worked with fully hydrogenated soybean oil. I can guarantee you that C3 is partially hydrogenated. It is probably similar to GW 464 which is supposedly somewhere around 35% hydrogenated, IIRC.

I know this is a long post, but it is very important information for what you're trying to do so please read it and consider. In soap, those things are fine, if fresh ingredients are dried first. But don't use cinnamon, which can be irritating on skin. I wouldn't use that in soap anyway...

The short answer is, you don't. At least not in large quantities. If you want to add anything botanical to a lotion formula, I would suggest you only use a paraben blend or a formaldehyde releaser as your preservative at the maximum safe percentage, because anything else will give you an...

A bubble bar type thing is more likely, since it would dissolve completely into the water, and a soap embed would just kind of sit there.

Where did you find that picture? Can you give us a link to the page so we can see the ingredients?

Is this something you saw in person, or was it on a website? If it was online, can you post a link? The ingredients should give us a clue.

You can use that. Mix it with water at 70% alcohol to 30% distilled water. It is important to mix it with water first.

If your soap is still fluid enough to get it into a mold, saponification is still going on and the pH is still very high. Even if you cooked it. That's why you're supposed to wear gloves while working with it.

Bleach leaves a residue that has to be rinsed off... with non-sanitized water. StarSan is used on equipment for making beer, wine, and cheese and so it is totally safe. Leave it in the solution for 3 minutes, and then take it out and let it air-dry without rinsing. Alcohol works faster than...

It's not really a matter of pasteurizing vs. dehydrating. It's a matter of either pasteurizing alone, or pasteurizing and dehydrating. I would not ever recommend a dehydrator of the kind used for fruit and such, unless you can get the temperature up high enough to keep the milk from spoiling...

You can try infusing oils. Search the forums for it and you'll find threads on how to do it.

Milk in soap adds sugar, which makes the lather better. Any sugar added to soap will make the lather better, and there are many things that can be added which have enough sugar to have this effect. The fat in milk gets saponified with the rest of the oils and doesn't necessarily make the soap...

No, not really. Botanicals are more easily preserved in a high pH product like soap, and really, really difficult to preserve in lotions. You'll get mold pretty quickly with chives in lotion.

You would lose far more benefits if it was full of bacteria and therefore unusable. Here's an experiment. Get three clean jars and put into one of them some fresh milk. In the second, mix half milk and half distilled water. In the third, mix 2% fresh milk and 97% water. In each, add 1%...

If @AxtFarm is going to be using the goat milk raw, I would suggest bumping that down to maybe 2% of the total formula. I would only go as high as 9% if it's pasteurized. Even 9% might be a bit high for milk that hasn't been powdered. Powdered milk has less potential for microbial contamination...

Whatever positive qualities chives have will probably be destroyed by the high pH of the lye. That's why you probably won't be able to smell it once the soap is cured.

Are you going to grind it into a powder first? If so, then a small amount is probably ok. You probably won't be able to smell it but it might look interesting. If you're going to leave it in bigger pieces, botanicals like that will turn an unappealing color when the soap is used. They get soggy...

1. How much water, and how much SLES are you mixing together? 2. Where did you get the recipe you're using, and can you post a link to it? 3. Are you using tap water, or distilled? 4.Have you put anything else in the water before you add the SLES?

Did you end up incubating another round, since you got so few to hatch this time? Sorry if you mentioned it already, I don't remember seeing it if you did.

I'm glad you're skeptical, because that is not a good recipe. There is no way that milk should be substituted for water at 100%. A small amount of water can be swapped out for milk, but there's no way I would make a lotion that used milk instead of water. That recipe also does not specify...