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    SMF March 2021 Soap Challenge - Air Blow Technique aka Dutch Pour Technique aka Wind Blow Technique

    Ok, Thank you for confirming. I havent seen one like this before of the previous challenges, so, I have confused.
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    My Version of Pear's Soap

    Is the pine rosin is same as the rosin used for violin? If it is I have some bars bought for my violin.
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    SMF March 2021 Soap Challenge - Air Blow Technique aka Dutch Pour Technique aka Wind Blow Technique

    Hello, is the voting thread is public? I found it here: SMF March 2021 Challenge Entries - Air Blow Technique aka Dutch Pour Technique aka Wind Blow Technique I have never seen other challenge's voting thread before.
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    New and Wondering about these Retailers?

    Just wishing we had this much variety of retailers :D.
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    Why all the Castile &/ Bastile Slime Hate?

    This same thing is happening to my 25% pomace soap, not this much but its the same thing. My soap is only cured for 2 weeks, I took a small piece to test it out how much it will lather at this time period. I was wondering what is this thing, since I am a newbie cp soaper and this is the first...
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    Soap making ingredients suppliers in India

    I used the lye calculator to get the amount of water & lye.
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    Soap making ingredients suppliers in India

    Hey no problem, happens to everyone. It worked fine. I made for both m&p and cp. Tried the M&P one in honey swirl soap, so far no color change. So, I guess its a success. Sorry for the delay in replying, somehow I missed it. In the slow moving batch I used 70% Pomace, 25 % Cocoa butter & 5%...
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    Soap making ingredients suppliers in India

    Thank you, found it few weeks ago. You already shared it weeks ago :D and I made & tried the VCS in soap already :)
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    Soap making ingredients suppliers in India

    Each state have their own rules, some states asks for space in industrial area. I felt it too complicated & expensive(renting a shop in industrial area just for licence). If you are trying please let us know how did it went. Good luck.
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    Homemade Vanilla color stabilizer (VCS) summary

    Thats what I did. I am new to use the stabilizer, so, I dont know whether its the correct method.
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    Homemade Vanilla color stabilizer (VCS) summary

    It got dissolved itself, since its been sitting in the bottle for few days.
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    Hard and Soft Oils Ratio

    For both batch, I hand stirred. For baby soap(70% Pomace), I used a whisk and mixed till I got a thin trace. For Pink soap(25% Pomace), I mixed with a spatula and it went to medium trace under a min, so, I added the FO, it curdled. After that I used the stick blender to blend it back together...
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    Would this be a good soap?

    Ok, I thought you could get from local market. For, Palm oil, what about supermarkets? The common brand is Ruchi Gold.
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    Would this be a good soap?

    What about butters? Kokum butter, Shea butter or Mango butter? I heard they are cheap at UP, compared to other places.
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    Hard and Soft Oils Ratio

    Ok, Thank you @GemstonePony , I think I will replace some of the Pomace with Rice Bran oil. Thank you @Mobjack Bay for the detailed explanation, I will check out the article too. Ok, Thank you @dibbles
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    Hard and Soft Oils Ratio

    I know, I am from India too.
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    Hard and Soft Oils Ratio

    I used Pomace Olive Oil, EVOO or VOO are way too expensive to use in soap. Others told me ordinary olive oil is slow moving, may be its VOO, I dont know. Other slow moving they mentioned is lard, that we cant get here right?
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    Hard and Soft Oils Ratio

    My first batch was really hard to take out from mould, I heard stearic acid will help with it, also, it will make the soap more long lasting in shower.
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    Soap making ingredients suppliers in India

    I used the same pomace for 2 batches, one batch took a long time to reach the trace, another one accelerated instantly, may be the combination of other oils, FO or the stearic acid I used.
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    Hard and Soft Oils Ratio

    Thank you all for all the advice :). So, summarising...... I need to add a slow moving oil in the recipe. All/most of the floral FO's can be accelerating, so, do a test. Alcohol is another accelerant, also it heat up the soap batter. So, mixing mica colors with oil/water/glycerine is better...
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