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Hi Szaza, funny, you are also on my radar for some reason!!! Soy?! The best I've come up with so far is this: SAO 25%, Cocoa Butter 20%; Coco 17%, Soy wax 12; Avocado 10, HO Sunflower 10, Castor 6. That gives: Lauric 8; Myristic 3; Palmitic 13; Stearic 18; Ricinoleic 5; Oleic 40; Linoleic 7...

Everyone would be entitled to scream if I threw in the word 'organic' :cool: ! RBO is as cheap as could be here EXCEPT if you want it organic - then it leaps up to 10 times the normal price. You see you put the bar very high for us Deeanna?!!! :) We can come up with lashings of stearic... I...

hum. Cmzaha, I think you are a soy person as well. I've done the rounds on getting my palmitic up. Avocado oil is not really a runner for me as it's far too (expensive and) dark and the refined probably doesn't have much palmitic anyhow... palmitic is animals or palm trees... Olive will give me...

Thank you SO MUCH Deeanna! piofekt!!!!

The dilemma I am trying to resolve might sound ridiculous. It boils down to this: do I go for Palmitic 13 + Stearic 18, or Palmitic 7 + Stearic 27. Hum. Nearly every discussion of palmitic and stearic lumps them together. The difference between them is explained in terms of shorter or longer...

Hi Earlene, it seems that the answer to my question "has anybody tried it?" might be a resounding "NO"!! I haven't tried yet either, and my recipe takes ages to cure, so I'll have to report back in a couple of months!!!

Dear all, In France, Xylitol seems to be the thing and has more or less ousted Sorbitol - so Xylitol is easy to find but Sorbitol less so. The consensus seems to be that Xylitol is better for combatting mouth bacteria than Sorbitol. So, my question is: has anyone used it in regular soapmaking...

For what it's worth, and just in case someone decides to follow my bad example, I immediately put a stop to the freezing business! now that the temperature outside is mid-teens, I leave it on a window ledge (a safe one!! there's a barrier)! thank you all for being here!!! Deeanna's intuition was...

I sort of do the opposite Susie. I have no water: I do a 1:1 lye:aloe juice masterbatch. And now I'm freezing it (I saw somebody advise that). I was having horrendous problems when I added the masterbatch lye solution to my oils which had either sugar or coconut milk added (DARK RED...

This is a VERY OLD thread, but I see that Crispa is still on the forum! I am trying to work out how to do the same - with difficulty. Crispa, did you go for it?!! Did it work? Thanks if you are there! best wishes to all, Orla

Thank you Todd Ziegler. I've been "listening" to you on this forum! But you don't use sugar - at least that's what I gather from what you say. I can pull off the coconut milk and aloe juice fine, and SL is such a well-behaved little additive! You're right though, I might up end up just caving...

Thank you SeaSuds. Yes, there is 1.5% starch in the icing sugar I use, but Kenna of soapmaking something actually noticed that the starch improved lather. That may well be true as others have talked about the water from making rice similarly improving lather. My aloe vera has only some tiny tiny...

Well. That wasn't a roaring success as such. Photo one is I'd say less than a minute after I've added a few drops of the Lye/aloe solution into the Sugar/CA solution (9 Sugar (icing sugar/sorbitol, 6 Citric Acid, 9 demineralised water). I immediately stopped and slammed the two of them in the...

OMIGOD Seasuds! You have no idea! I am so excited by the prospect of testing that method. I think I might be able to pull it off. Ooof, ooof, ooof. Better not get too excited, but I'm going give that a serious shot. To answer your question, no, I don't think it does entirely go away. It...

Sorry Shunt, yes, I think I may have got things messed up. I saw that you add your milk to your oils. I read your post and tried that alternative also. Masterbatch lye gently added to oils with the coconut milk. I'm loathe to abandon the CA as the water here is extremely hard. Until the...

Hello all, Here's the thing: the problem is my batter going red (i.e. I assume coconut milk burning). Now I know that Shunt, Irish Lass and several others on this forum put their sugar/citric acid solution directly into their oils. And then they add the lye. And they have NO PROBLEMS! I try to...

Bee55, this is not a new post, but I just wanted to say that in France, and I suspect it's similar in the UK, it's the Chinese dealers who sell Rice Bran Oil and it's cheap as could be. Not organic, but definitely cheap .

I got on to some bartenders' group discussion and there it seemed they talked about sugar syrup (for cocktails) being ok for several months. Anyway, as I think Deeanna said, adding the citric could only prolong its shelflfe. I keep mine in the fridge anyway. It's just that melting sugar and...

Yes, when I've finished my sugar soluton and my citric acid solution, I'm making a sugar+citric acid water solution at a 5:2 ratio - and 1:1 sugar: to water

Here's a thing. I checked this site to see what people might say on this subject. In France what they do is make 100 coconut oil soap. Grate it with a machine when it's ready. Boil water - double the amount of soap - and at .8 ratio, salt. When your saline solution is ready put in soap shavings...