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Thanks everyone, I think I'll try this one soon. Basic Cold Process Recipe (Super fat 5%): 8 oz. Coconut Oil (24%) 15 oz. Olive Oil (44%) 11 oz. Palm Oil (32%) 4.8 oz. Lye 11.2 oz. Distilled Water Just one question, palm oil is actually hard to get here in Cairns Australia. Is there...

Well I've been reading and watching YouTube videos, and am eager to make my first batch of cold process soap. My head is spinning with so much information often contradicting. Could someone please give me a basic soap recipe using easily obtained ingredients like olive oil, coconut oil and...

I will definitely get familiar with regular soap first, but my dream is making soaps like the one attached, basically with regular soap for the sand, moulded soap for the shells and clear soap tinted blue for the water. I have lots of ideas with similar ideas. I know this is ambitious for a...

I have been surfing the net like crazy trying to find a good basic recipe for clear, see-through soap. Could you professionals please show me the best way to make it from scratch, with obtainable ingredients (some ingredients and additives are hard to hey here. I've also heard that sugar and...

Thanks everyone for your advice. I don't think I'll try this again. My next assignment will be using melt and pour soap and making something artistic. I thinking of a "seaside soap" where I'll start with glycerine, blue coloured soap, then put a small shell and fish moulded soap on that and...

Yes I was thinking of using melt and pour, as you can do alot with it. I remembered that I had an ice cream container worth of hotel soap so I thought I'd start with this. Also when you do grate up soap and remelt it, how much water do you need to use? I used 1 water to 2 soap gratings, which...

Yes I thought maybe I didn't put enough water in. I want to start off with the very basics first before graduating to using lye and oils. I thought I'd start with the many hotel soaps I have which I won't use anyway, then get soap base, then when I'm confident with that, start making it from...

I just made my first batch, well tried to. I had quite a few bars of hotel soap which I grated. I made a cup of gratings. I looked up the internet and was instructed to add half the amount of water and melt in a double boiler which I did. It melted but didn't quite get pourable. It got the...

Hi there I'm Jennifer from Cairns, Australia. I'm just starting to make soap and I think I'll need alot of help. My 1st batch didn't quite work.