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Okay good to know. I may add sugar next time instead as it seems to give as good bubbles as honey and seems less tenprmental Okay thank you. I think I'll add sugar next time we it seems less can go wrong with sugar in the lye water. I appreciate all the feedback. There is so much to...

I will zap test it. Thanks for the reminder of doing that. I forgot. I also added honey and I think maybe I hand stirred in the honey so maybe it didn't evenly disburse and also I placed it on a heating pad for an hour. Not sure if this could have made a difference either.

I am trying to get a pic uploaded. I used spearmint EO.

I'm going to stick blend less and cut the castor to 5% along with use a little more water in soap calc. Thank you for all the help! You've given me so much to consider. Thank you. I was trying to do a pot where you poor down the side of the mould alternating colours. I'm going to do more...

Hi again, So the cold process soap I made yesterday has brown spots right through the batch. I had been told to add polysorbate to my neons (which I now know was a mistake), and I did this along with added kaolin clay that I think wasn't mixed well enough, as I added it and mixed it in by...

I may need to use more water and not do a water discount. This recipe is a friend's and she had said it would take days to unmould with so much olive oil so she does the water discount. I had never used a recipe with a water discount before. I will try hand stirring. Thanks for this suggestion!

Hi everyone, I continue to get my soap accelerating and am trying to do a nice drop swirl or something more fancy but of course each time it thickens so fast! I stir in lye and hand stir a bit then SB for around 10 seconds. That is all. My recipe is 75% olive oil, 10% castor and 25% coconut...

I'm not sure if my reply posted before. Do I not need around 50%hard oils in a recipe to help the soap to not take forever to saponify? This is helpful. Thank you!

I thought each batch needs around 50% of harder oils? Is that true? I am always nervous to create a recipe with more soft oils than hard. I guess I can do a water discount if I do use more soft oils but being new to soap making I'm not sure I really know how to.

Okay. I thought the cooler I soap the less acceleration will be? I havent used this one before. Superfat was at 5%.

Thank you. I'll try a more simpler recipe for swirls. This is so helpful.

35 degrees celcius.

It's 2.562. Lye concentration is 28%. Warerbas percentage of oils is 36%. I'm thinking I shouldn't have done this and that's why it maybe accelerated. So much to learn. Thanks for any help you can give!

Hi all, I had plans for trying a new swirl and the soap traced really fast. I'm using a new recipe with 25%palm, 28% olive, 10% shea butter, 5% cocoa butter, 7% castor oil and 25% coconut oil. My EO were orange and bergamot. I added coconut milk for half the water. I would love help figuring...

I remelted it all and added some cocoa butter. It is hard now. I also think I hadn't let the beeswax truly melt to liquid. Lesson learned now so thank you!! Yes. I am using the softer coconut oil. I have so much of this as I bought this in bulk. Next time I'll order the harder one. Thank...

Interesting! No I didn't weigh. I used a blog where she used cup measurements. I should know to as I of course weigh for making soap! My coconut oil is pretty soft at room temp though. Could this make a difference? Hmmm. I will for sure weigh all my ingredients and try it again. Thanks for...

Thank you so much. I have never seen these percentages before. I was just using a recipe that had the measurements in cups. This is great! Oh the Shea I used is solid at room temp. So it was one third shea which was solid, one third beeswax and one third coconut oil but this wasn't hard...

Okay. So I should dip a spoon as in test a small amount. Can I add some beeswax and cocoa butter? Thanks for the help

I made my first lotion bars using 1/3 shea, beeswax and coconut oil. They are too soft and dont stay together when I hold them. I had put them in the fridge at first. Most recipes im finding use these percentages of oil and beeswax that I used. Can someone please give me any suggestions...

That is helpful. Maybe I'll try that % next time. I'm off to sleep now. It isn't warm anymore but still gel so I can't cut. Will see how it is in 8 hours. I feel like it is too long to leave it for 8 hours but oh well! Thanks for the comments and help!