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Thanks. I am done making soap for the season but I think I will try, 20 percent both of soy wax and coconut, 55 percent HO Canola and 5 percent Castor. I always use 5 percent castor so I should have put that in my original question....sorry. Just for the heck of it I think I will try a few...

It seems to me it is a replacement for those oils in the area of hardening the bars. Kiwi appears to use about one half of the normal percentage of soy wax to achieve the same hardness as my 40 percent tallow recipes. That would allow her to use soft oils more and gain the same hardness. My...

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Does soy wax reduce, increase or keep lather the same if it replaces lard, tallow or palm? (And everything else stays the same in a recipe.) Thanks for any info.

Ok, thanks Lorenzo and DeeAnna..........just thought it might be better than table sugar. More like sorbitol which is touted as giving very good lather with big bubbles. The difference is dextrose is far cheaper.....sorbitol is a bit pricey from what I have found. I guess I'll just stick to...

Has anyone ever tried dextrose powder to increase lather? Thanks for any info.

FWIW, to new soapers I always suggest a simple non allergenic type of recipe..........20 percent coconut, 50 percent lard/palm, 30 percent olive. I tell them about 5 percent castor oil and let them know about the increased suds.

You are using too much sodium IMHO. Start a new batch with no salt and see how that works. If not good enough reduce the sodium citrate to only two teaspoons. If still not good enough reduce the sodium lactate to only two teaspoons. By then I would think your problem would be...

FWIW, here is my favorite spoon for making HP soap. (I do the double boiler method.) I bought 3 about 10 years ago and am still on my first one. That is how long it has lasted!! :shock: https://www.thesage.com/catalog/products/Soap-Spoon.html

No doubt it is a very small amount of oil that stays deposited on the skin with superfatting. Another question.........this is off topic.......my wife wants me to make her another batch of cream and I see a lot of you use cocoa butter and mango butter. I usually have shea because I put a...

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Thanks........have you ever used Soapers Choice lard? I don't even know the brand.

Just the small containers.

Isn't that part of the reason why we superfat?

How do you guys rate it? Do I just use the lard brand choice in Soap Calc, etc., when computing the amount of NaOH for the recipe? I have always bought my lard from a place about 35 miles from my house but I don't feel like driving that far for the last box of lard I will need this winter...

So, yesterday I am making a batch of soap and just before putting in the lye water I decide to start a pot of boiled rice. I got a can of chicken broth opened and start pouring...........I start hearing crackling sounds.............it is the pot of heating soap oils that I am pouring the...

Thank you Cherrycoke and Susie! I used the soapee calculator and it gave the amounts of KOH and NaOH to use with a 5%, 95% ratio. Is everything else the same in terms of making the soap after dissolving the lye into the water?

First I have ever heard of mixing KOH with NaOH like this. Please tell me what to do to the recipe for replacing NaOH with KOH? I assume I calculate the 5 percent of regular lye in soap calc and replace it with KOH? What about the rest of the recipe, etc.? Thanks for any info or links...

Soapers Choice new website is now accepting orders...........just placed one.

Unmolded today...........nothing different then when dissolved in water. Other than the volcano, it dissolved fine and mixed in fine. (I assume the stick blender put the sugar into suspension and the water/lye actually dissolved it..........but you couldn't actually see the granules in the oil...