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I have never seen an orange spot on my soap and I have soap that is over 5 years old. How do you cut it if you don't have time the next day?

Man some people are negative in here. If you are all such experts then tell me why lye calc makes such terrible soap? It ruins the smell profile of scented soaps, it is hard to cut even if only cutting the next day. It makes terrible terrible soap. Is the answer to my question less coconut...

Man, it saponifies fast with all that lye in it. Couple of zaps and it is done. Poured it about 20 minutes ago and it is nearly ready to unmold. Cocos nucifera is the name of the coconut tree. Sodium Olivate is saponified olive oil and Sodium Cocoate is saponified coconut oil. There hasn't...

You have to first understand how horrible soap is at a microbiological level. They wash all the dirt and grime off your body then they sit around for the rest of the day in perfect conditions for them to multiply. If you use a oil that has microbiological properties, it reduces this. Here is...

What antibacterial agent do you use? If you aren't using anything that kills bacteria, then the soap isn't really cleaning you.

Hello. Most of the recipes on the my favourite recipe are pretty much exactly the same but using palm oil instead of shortening. My soap lathers fine, cures hard, gets to trace fast and it leaves a layer of oil on the skin that saves having to cover your skin in olive oil after you shower. If...

Hello, Oh yea, I forgot about that about coconut oil. You are right, I do need to do more research on the subject before I hit the market. Its ok, have plenty of time. No lard, palm or tallow here though. Animal free, palm free and plastic free. It is a long road to making the perfect soap...

Yea it is coconut based, but hydrogenated so it isn't really oil. It is best for people with sensitive skin, which is my target market. I only ever thought about selling it because people were hounding me because the soaps down at the market are too harsh. That is why the lye amounts that the...

Hi, Thanks for your help. The mixture is: 30% olive oil pomace 26% coconut oil 44% veg shortening I was calculating the lye solution as being 40% lye and 60% water = 40% lye concentration. I plugged in your calculation of 29% into soapcalc and it gave me 1581 g water and 646 g lye. That...

Hello, Just stand them up in one layer in boxes and stack the boxes on top of each other. Using chicken wire and dish drying racks and things can leave marks on your soap and it leaves them open for gathering dust and such.

Hello, I have a big problem. I have a tried and true recipe that has 4535 grams oil weight with a 40% lye solution which is 384 g lye and 940 g water. I want to resize my batch but when I plug the exact recipe in soap calc it tells me to use 646 g of lye in 969 grams of water which is a 66%...