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Thank you for your reply. In India, light olive oil and extra virgin olive oil have almost the same cost. I'll experiment and make small batches to check out how it's working.

Thank you for sharing your experience. I always work at room temperature and I'm planning to make a small batch next week. I'll share the results after making.

Actually it's not required. I use unrefined coconut oil and at the bottom of the bottle some sediments which we usually find out in all our unrefined oils are present. While measuring the oil, it might come up. So I just heat it along with the other hard oils.

Hello everyone, I just wanted to know if lye concentration and longevity are inter-related. Suppose if a soap is made with three different lye concentrations: 30%, 33% and 37% and all the three are cured for 6 weeks, how will the outcome be? Will all the soaps have the same longevity or will...

Ok DeeAnna.😊😊 Thank you.

Ok. Thank you so much for your reply.

Hi, Is it better to freeze the carrot juice and make the lye solution or add carrot juice at trace?? Which works best to get orange colour??? How much juice to add incase if I'm adding at trace?? Sorry for asking too many questions. I'm planning to make a carrot soap and wish to have a natural...

Thank you so much for your reply and suggestion ma'am. I read the article and found it very useful and I'll follow as you say. Thank you so much. I'm a new soap maker and I've never used a thermometer so far. I always work at room temperature. After preparing the lye solution, I let it cool for...

Hello ma'am, I'm from India and last week I made 100% coconut oil soap(cold pressed one which we use for cooking), frozen coconut milk substituted for water to make the lye solution with 20 percent super fat. It took nearly 20 minutes to reach trace with a stick blender. My hands started to hurt...

Hi, Is it better to freeze the carrot juice and make the lye solution or add carrot juice at trace?? Which works best to get orange colour??? How much juice to add incase if I'm adding at trace?? Sorry for asking too many questions. I'm planning to make a carrot soap and wish to have a natural...

That's so kind of you for sharing your recipe. Thank you so much...

Ok. Thank you so much for your suggestion. Is ricebran ok to be used as a replacement for some olive??? I can add a small amount of sweet almond too..

Palm and not palmolein

I cure all my bars more than 6 weeks. Thank you so much for your suggestion. As I want to stick to unrefined oils except the palm, sesame is the only option. I know sesame has a shorter shelf life but the one I'm buying is unrefined and very pure. So don't want to miss that in my soap. The...

Hi, I am a new soap maker from India and have made 6 batches of soap so far and learning a lot each time I make soap from the forum mainly. I would like to thank each and everyone in this forum for sharing your experience. Now the problem is I feel all my soaps to be too drying. I used 30% CO...

Yes.I've searched by using both the names.

Hai, I would like to make a blend of Litsea and Lemon essential oils but I don't know where to buy. Unfortunately the place where I buy my essential oils don't sell litsea. Have anyone in India used Litsea in your soaps??

Thank you for your reply. I know the smell of sesame oil is not good but would like to add it as it has a lot of skin benefits. Actually we use it for cooking regularly.

Thank you so much for your reply. I have been soaping since August and theoretically I've become quite strong but made only a few batches till now. I'll surely take some more time to finalize a proper recipe.