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Guys, thanks for you all your responses. As someone suggested I ended up doing the zap test (I had never heard of that before, had to look it up!) I didn't feel any zap, although I didn't really know what to feel for. I had added salt to the lye water, and I tasted the saltiness quite strongly...

Those are the oils I've been able to get ahold of... I do have sunflower oil as well but I read on a site somewhere that it goes rancid quickly so I left it out. I don't want to use animal fats, and I've been looking for palm oil everywhere but it cannot be found. The difficult thing is I was...

Hi guys. I have done three soaps so far, a plain castile soap, a coffee soap, but my third, a pine tar soap, has turned out wrongly. Water 151g Lye 101g Olive oil 360g Coconut oil 200g Grapeseed oil 120g Pine tar 120g First I mixed the water and lye. Then I mixed the non-pine tar oils and...

Thanks again so much. Currently the oils I have in my pantry are olive oil, coconut oil, grapeseed oil, sunflower oil, canola oil, and soybean oil (Crisco). I have read that palm oil is used to make soap long-lasting, but stores here don't seem to carry it at all anymore. According to their...

Thanks everybody so much. I'm so glad I came here, because I was about to actually scoop the goop out and try again before thinking of checking for a soap message board. And I'm happy to say that as if this afternoon, the soap is hard! I will give it another day and then remove it. One small...

Thanks so much. No sun. Got it. And I'm glad to say that it wasn't my imagination, the soap *is* definitely hardening, albeit slowly. Now when I touch it, it does not leave a mark on the surface anymore, and I can feel that I would have to apply a bit of pressure to cause the surface to break...

Thanks, I won't give up on it just yet then. Would letting it sit out in the sun help?

The appearance looks okay, nothing has separated at least. Here is a photo The top one looks that way because I touched it this afternoon. I touched it again just now and I do think it has stiffened a bit since then, although still soft. I didn't save the recipe since I didn't plan to use...

I don't have the recipe but it was 40% lye to 60% water, and nothing but olive oil other than that. The recipe should be fine as I had someone else check it and they said the numbers were good. I'm almost positive that I didn't blend it long enough, or perhaps didn't dissolve the lye well...

My first attempt seems to have failed, sadly. Almost 24 hours later and it remains goo. It's in a silicone muffin mold, am I able to put it in the oven and try to cook it to harden? If not, can I water it down and somehow convert it to liquid hand soap?