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By the way, my new Australian favorite youtuber is Wicked Lee Goods, if someone wants to know and wants to check her out. I really, really like her. She doesn't have the most breathtaking designs and such, but I think she is very coool. And I have rediscovered Vibrant Soap. The last few days I...

@amd, can I have the address to your Youtube channel? I have several soapers on my Youtube list, but many of them have stopped making videos, so I would love to have someone else to watch, and hopefully learn from. Not that I remember what I should have been learning, since I do so many mistakes...

The worst thing I know is to watch those soapmakers that scrapes the bowl, the stickblender and scrapes absolutely everything for hours and hours, until the very last drop. And they don't stop scraping their bowls and utensils even then. That is very, very annoying. It is just cheap oils and lye...

I made a soap today, and I feel like I'm getting a little bit better every time, but still have a loooong way to go. I do make a complete mess, so the kitchen looks like a disaster zone afterwards - or worse. Of course something went wrong today. I think I stickblended a little bit too much...

If you are using a crockpot to make the soap, remember that the coating on the crock, the ceramic glaze, is made of glass (more or less). And lye will break down glass over time. That's why you can see that soapmaker's crockpots are all matte on the inside, most often. When the glass coating...

Thank you :) Yes, I will definately do that next time, and not ruin my whole batch. The good thing is that I have learned - the hard way. I sniffed my cotton pads just now, to see if they had changed since yesterday. Or if I would like them better. Out of 6 samples, I really, really like 1 of...

So, now my liquid soap is done and all bottled up. My preservative came yesterday, so that's why it took so long. Everything went smooth and the soap looks beautiful and smells fantastic! NOOO!!! I am soooo angry right now. I were more angry yesterday. The soap is totally ruined, more or less...

Thank you Zany! iHerb, yes, a great idea! I have shopped there before. I will have a look and see what they have. I can find palm oil here, from immigrant shops. It is called Khanum vegetable ghee. First, I thought that I wouldn't buy it because it isn't RSPO, sustainable and that sort. It...

Hihi, yes, well, what do do when we have a lot of small grocery stores with few goods insted of some bigger one with everything needed. In my village we have 3 bad grocery stores. We could have had 1 big instead of 3 small. In the nearest town, Narvik, it is tons of small and useless grocery...

I'm not any experienced or anything. But they say the reason for some oils being drying, is because they are turned into soap, and change completely from what they were to begin with. I don't thing either that any oil is drying when they are used as oils. But as soap, fractionated coconut oil...

I think it is because fractionated coconut oil contains almost only the short chained capric (10-carbon) and caprylic acids (8-carbon), that are said to be drying to the skin (I have read DeeAnna mention those two as the reason for the drying qualities of coconut oil. And the fractionated...

Hi! :eek: I guess this may only be relevant for europeans or non-americans, as I understand you only have Canola over there. And I'm not completely sure of what I have found out either. So correct me if I'm wrong. The thing is that I can't find rapeseed oil in SoapCalc. All three entries; *...

I made sodium citrate from citric acid and baking soda, and stirred it in my liquid soap paste. Just a very small amount, 41-42 grams. And that was easy! I did not make a dry powder, but a solution. I just measured out citric acid and baking soda in a pitcher, and then added boiling water to...

I ordered Plantaserve E (mix of phenoxyethanol and ethylhexylglycerin). Those you, DeeAnna recommended, are not widely available here. I could only find Suttocide, but I don't want to risk my soaps turning pink because of interaction with citrus essential oils, so I left that one behind. The...

I don't think it will be as high as 11 when dilluted. I made a clarity test, which of course did not come out clear because of the mica I added (and maybe also because of unsaponifiables and superfatting). I did test the PH with PH-strips. I had dilluted way more than 50/50 soap paste and water...

Well, and that is actually the place where I read before about PH 10 and above. So now that is solved :D

Thank you for the link to Making Skincare, DeeAnna :)

I learn a lot, thanks to you guys on this forum. I thought the reason behind that bar soaps can be without preservatives, were the low content of water, and that it had nothing to do with PH. And actually it is the PH that is the main preservative for bar soaps.

Thank you both, again! :) PH, yes, well, I should have wrote that I had read that only a PH of 10 or over would preserve a product. And liquid soap has under 10. So that's why I didn't understand why it could be without preservatives and contain lots of water. But I forgot to mention it, and I...

I just read that it is very popular these days to hide preservatives as "parfum" or "fragrance" or under other substances, by using preservatives that has a dual function - fragrance materials and preservative at the same time, or an emollient and preservative, for example. Some newer types of...