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Thank you...........but what about the heavier weight of the milk versus water. Is their a basic calculation that tells me how much milk to add to equal the volume of water needed for the recipe?

I'm a bit confused here.........I want to try a regular liquid milk soap with 50% of the liquid as milk and the other 50% as water. So, I would dissolve the lye into the 260 grams water (my recipe calls for 520 grams of liquid total). Then when do I add the milk and how do I account for the...

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My usual recipe is: 20 percent CO (10 oz.) 42 percent Lard or Tallow (20 oz.) 30 percent Olive Pomace (14 oz.) 8 percent Castor (4 oz.) My wife bought a few containers of Walmart GV Shortening and said it is mainly tallow.......I searched this forum and read the label and she is right from...

WOW!! I just make soap for friends and family but that is ridiculous OP. I can see why you're a bit disappointed and angry.

FWIW, I only HP using the double boiler method. I use sugar to make the soap more fluid. Two tablespoons in a batch of 48 ounces of oil. I dissolve the sugar in the water before adding the lye. But I use the double boiler method, so I don't know if this would work with a crock pot or oven...

Rob: FWIW, I consider the pine tar as part of the oils and have used the recommended amounts of lye and water suggested in SoapCalc when inputting my recipe for the resulting SoapCalc recommendations. I use their standard 5 percent SF and it comes out fine. Bickmore results in a darker bar...

I use both........they both work fine. ETA: I also make most at 4 percent pine tar. But do make a batch now and then with 20 percent pine tar for a stronger action of the pine tar. But both Bickmore and Farnham work fine.

I use a faucet filter and add some EDTA in all my soaps.

Yeah, stuff like that has happened to me before. Just three weeks ago I tried to make a batch of a recipe I use alot. (I don't vary much in my oils, etc., and start making soap for everyone when summer starts to end. This was my first batch since last winter.) It wouldn't saponify in...

I recently wanted to try salt to just harden bars........not to get a salt bar soap. Found an old post where a member at one of the soap sites said "1TBL of salt per pound of oil, AFTER saponification, stirred into the hot soap before molding will harden bars". I tried it........he/she was...

I use stearic in my soap (HP is only what I do). It hardens soap at 1TBL per pound of oil for me. The soap calc. program lists the SAP at 0.141 for sodium hydroxide. http://soapcalc.net/calc/SoapCalcWP.asp

Thank you Fragola.

Off topic but could any of you offer some advice? I only hot process with the double boiler method. If I was to add 75 percent salt at the end of the hot processing, would this be feasible? Or would I instantly have a solution of hard rocks, etc.? Thanks for any info. (Oh, I...

I simply do not know how to post pictures. But here is a link to a dark brown soap that isn't as dark or have the dark red tint mine have. Plus, the recipe I gave, for me, makes a much more homogenous coloring. No mottling, etc. Look at this linked picture and imagine a soap a couple...

I've noticed that alot of people like the black colored soaps. If you don't mind a very, very dark brown/red type of soap here's what I make alot of the time. In batches of 48 ounces of oil, I use (1) about 10 percent pine tar and (2) add one heaping tablespoon of pygeum bark powder. (The...

FWIW Adema, I've used all the oils you have mentioned over the years and have had no problem. I usually combine CO and PKO to total 30 percent in all my batches. (Plus I almost always use Pine Tar in my soaps. Ratios vary depending on nothing but a "whim" for each batch. Same for castor...

Thanks everyone for the welcome. Starduster: I've made some regular, non-medicated soaps, but not much. A couple of friends of my wife like the medicated soap so I make some for them every year. (They all like the medicated soap more than the regular soap I gave them once before. Go...

Been making hot processed soap for many, many years but just found this site. (I learned how to make the old style lard soap from my grandparents many, many years ago when I was a kid. I did the "grunt" work for them like filtering fat, etc.) Alot of good info. here! I never knew of the...