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This was what I feared... Thank you both for your replies.

Yesterday, I blanched some purple sprouting broccoli and the water was a beautiful shade of green. Can it be used in soap or will it turn brown? (I have the feeling that it will go brown...) Has anybody tried it?

I made a soap with 70% shea butter and it is wonderful. Expensive to make though...

Do you think the book is worth buying? It seems quite expensive - $45!

I am a UK member but I have no idea how to make a Brut Fragrance soap bar...:)

Good idea! I'll use it next time I do HP.

Exactly! So I guess that's the end of the experiment...

I read that cetyl alcohol will increase and stabilise the lather in CP soaps so of course I had to try it. I used it at 2% of the oil weight and melted it beforehand. When I poured it into the batter (which was nearly at trace) it turned into blobs. Stirring was not enough to dissolve them so...

Thank you.

This is interesting. How do you apply it? With a spray? On a washcloth?

I hope the nail varnish works for you.

I am puzzled by what you wrote: "allergic to my wedding rings" (plural). How many wedding rings do you wear?

Update: I have made a paste with only babassu oil and magnesium hydroxide (50/50) and it works fine. No irritation! The only problem is the application because it is not thick or hard enough to go into a tube. So you were right when you suggested that it was probably the fragrance. I am so...

Great tip! Thank you.

Thank you all for taking the time to reply. The first change I will make is to leave it unscented. We'll see. Thanks again.

I use essential oils, not fragrance oils but it could be that. I never thought of it! Thank you. I will make a batch unfragranced and see what happens. Thank you for your reply. In fact, I use ewax, not btms. I use it at 12%. Is that too high? I also use 3% cetyl alcohol.

Thank you for doing this. I don't know how to link things... This is DeeAnna's recipe: Mg(OH)2 powder 30 gram Babassu 55 gram (melt temp 76 F) Cetyl alcohol 14 gram (melt temp 120 F) BTMS 14 gram (melt temp 140 F) Fragrance 0.5 gram As you can see, it contains no baking soda.

In this forum, there is a very long thread called de-funk de pits which was started in 2016. In it, DeeAnna (post no. 361) posted her recipe which I have tried and liked and used since 2017. It is a wonderful deodorant (thank you DeeAnna!) but I have found that, now, it irritates my underarms...

Thank you. I didn't know about this soap challenge. I'll try and find out more.

I poured a fancy melt and pour layer at the bottom of my mould, sprayed it with rubbing alcohol and then poured cold process soap batter on top. When I unmoulded it the following day, the melt and pour layer separated. What is the secret for "sticking" melt and pour and cp?