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Wow, fantastic! Thank you so much. I'm very pleased. For people who soap irregularly and only make small batches, making sure the sugar is melted and then the citric acid also is all quite a bit of extra faff (I just made that word up perhaps). Thank you again. All my best, Orla

Ah, thank you Irish Lass. Pleased to know I didn't invent the problem!!! have a nice... let me check... evening! from Orla

Thank you Deeanna. Actually, I masterbatched NaOH and Aloe Vera Juice (99.75 pure with 0.25% citric acid) and it's been absolutely fine. Taking into account masterbatching for me is a litre, and the timeframe we're talking about a month. Yes, I see your point though. I've masterbatched the sugar...

Hi all, I hope everyone is safe and well. This would really be a question for the chemists (not saying Deeanna!!). If you prepared your sugar and citric acid solution in advance, no chemical reaction between the two would interfere with their properties in any way, would it? I keep nervously...

Thank you Glendam! Yes, I agree: I am going to have to play around with very liquid batter to see what I can come up with (in tiny quantities!). Thank you for the video link!

Thank you DeeAnna, funny I didn't think of that. I don't want ombre (it's not a gradient of colour I'm looking for as such) but if I study that technique a bit more I'll probably be able to work out how to get different tints over a surface. Thank you. (I'm a member of your fan-club by the way...

I'd second the lower temperature of 85° F. Particularly if you are trying out techniques and stuff - which you probably are. It took me time to have the patience to wait for low temperatures but things have gone smoother (i.e. less scary-thriller-unexpected-turns situation) when I managed to...

Hi all, and thanks for any advice at all. I'm trying to get smudgy colours - I mean two colours kind of blending into eachother a bit I stumbled on a discussion on this site about this, and I remember someone submitted a photo of soap that had this kind of indistinct mix between two colours -...

Sorry, jumping on the bandwagon here. I follow Irish Lass's advice on the sugar (5% of oils) and I take some of the lye water and heat it in the microwave - first a 20 sec blast, stir, and back for 10 sec sessions (depending on quantity of sugar). I think it's important to be 100% sure that it's...

Dear all, I have searched this forum and I see several suggestions about adding the coconut milk to the oils. Previously, I've added the coconut milk (making up water difference) to the lye solution (at room temperature) and it turns orange, but everything works out fine. Last night, I stood in...

Szaza, I got on to latitudenature.com on that question. They told me that they would verify and get back to me. This one is 100% soya wax - no additif whatever, they say: https://www.latitudenature.com/product/cire-de-soja-europeenne-100-vegetale-pour-bougies-container-parfumees-ou-non-/120207/

In general, it is not the same as used for candles - as they are often still adding parrafin. I think you need to go towards the organic candle supplier people. I found one here in France...

Partial victory for the blenders. On the bottom, SB'd, on the top oil dissolved and on the right water. Note, that for the water I did a 1:1 ratio. (two of them have stickers on the bottom: there were no errors). And this is at the ratio of 5ml PPO. If you look close at the non SB'd oil example...

I'm a bit of a neophyte here, but two interesting things came up when I formulated a similar question: rapeseed wax and soya wax. I have ordered the soyawax (not organic but non-OGM), and I'm very disappointed that soapcalc does not have rapeseed wax on its list of ingredients. I tried to send...

I think there may be differences in different TD as it's sold. I was using this ridiculously expensive premixed TD and I could mix it in fine without the blender, so I really did not anticipate problems as my TD mixed with castor oil actually looked exactly the same. I think this whole TD...

Well, to be precise, if you added 2tsp of your 2:1 mix you would be adding 1tsp and 1/3 of a tsp Minute 9:24 ... Here's a thing. This website suggests that one US teaspoon of titanium dioxide weighs 21 grams!!! https://www.aqua-calc.com/calculate/volume-to-weight One tsp of TD (with my tsp...

Goodness Jersey Girl I suspect you know a lot more about soaping than I do, but high temperatures speed up tracing - as does the SB !!

Hi to all, to be honest SBing in the TD is really not an option for me - I sail very close to the wind as it is: I need to keep temperatures as low as I can as I have high unsats and high sugar. Seeing as the TD I bought does seem to blend with oils, I think I'll just have to experiment with the...

I have my doubts on that, Jersey Girl. The beauty of pre-mixing is that if done properly it can just be stirred in. That would be my feeling. And in any event, if that were the problem, we would see streaks - which is not the case. I have two running hypotheses. One is that water-soluble...

I am going to do some swatch tests this evening (more maths!!!). And I will get back to you. I am wondering what's at the bottom of this oil/water soluble distinction... But I will give you the results of my tests tomorrow.