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I'm currently moving myself to WI. Again. This time without any idea of a return date. My son is taking partial custody of his kids because their mom is not doing her job. So this Nan needs to step in. This is all to explain why I'm going to take a bit to respond to the request for ideas on how...

I'll just chime in here to say that my mostly-lard soaps (they're 70%+) get to cure for at least 8 weeks, and because I don't add a chelator, their SF is almost exclusively 3% across the board. Also, I usually will add some kind of sugar to the lye-water, or to the fats. I particularly find that...

Allergies are quite the rabbits out of a hat for some ppl. If no one in your family understands how they work, they're not even aware that there's allergies in the family history. An example: I complained about pineapple, fresh, canned, or even in recipes with a bit of it, making my tongue and...

Wow. This is SO eye opening. I have had latex, pineapple, and kiwi allergies for over 15 yrs, but it never occurred to me to ask about cross-linked allergies based on them. Also a LOOOONG list of antibiotics allergies as well. A friend, who studied microbiology in her day, also commented I might...

@Blufuz Thank you SO much for that warning. I've been working at a snail's pace but I followed your advice and did as much prep as possible so that all I had to do after mixing the lye solution was adding it to the ready oils. I had no whisk but a ss spoon. The tiny amount of olive oil saved my...

I managed to get some olive oil (I posted it in the "What soapy thing have you done today". Sorry, but someone had responded there. I prefer to have my discussion here though. Anyway, temps where I am have gone from mid-90sF (about mid 30sC) to low 80sF (high 20sC). So, my oils /fats are now...

My housemate decided to venture out on her day off (she runs her own biz) so I asked her if she'd snag a bottle of olive oil for me. She DID. That's what it did to my recipe. So I'm about to do something I've never done before, which is to actually divide the lye for the total recipe, into the...

You have inadvertently given me the answer to my silent query! What do I use to improve my cedarwood eo in my CP soap batch that I'm rn in the process of making. Wow. Serendipitous! 😍

I read the original article, way back when, why I "trust" Bertolli here in ES as it's the only brand I know from the States. There's a Costco-equivalent warehouse but that's a place too far, & too out of my league atm for me to even contemplate. I know they carry the Kirkland brand. I'd've...

Olive oil, even a cheap Bertolli brand, not evoo but a so-called "plain", is $8/ 4oz (fluid) bottle. That's at the local supermarket where I know they sell legit products. Out at the open markets, the saying goes "they might be selling you cat for rabbit". And not for much cheaper. If the olive...

This is my cold process solid soap recipe. "Unapologetically Palm " https://wwww.soapmakingfriend.com/recipes/edit/76361#:~:text=Unapologetically Palm I'm not sure if this is how to link to my recipe but if not, I'll try another way, if I can. I've never made such a mostly single oil soap...

Trying to find out how bad of a pickle I'm in. I'm in El Salvador again, finally recovered enough from my traveling to brave making soap for my Nanny, and come to find out I don't have my usual complement of oils. 🥺 LOTS of palm oil. I've got coconut (CO76), Castor. No olive, HO Canola (I...

I've postponed soap-making because San Antonio has been incredibly hot, and the only place I can do it is either the garage or the back patio, and neither is tolerable at the moment. I almost pass out just in the minute it takes me to walk from the parking space to the Dr's lobby! Later today I...

That's AMAZING looking soap that I WON'T be showing my son until I'm confident enough that I think, THINK, I'm ready to TRY a batch. Jeepers creepers, Man. You've really set the bar high, even for those of us who've been doing soap for a cpl (7) yrs... 😭 Just beautiful soap...

Well, lesse. I've got TONS of canola oil, I've got dragon fruit peel juice extracted and frozen, also rice rinse water in the fridge, glycerine, and a soaping itch that refuses to yield. So I think I'll make the canola oil soap, with some aging olive oil before it dips into disgraceful old age...

I've usually added honey to my olive oil containing soaps (I added it to the oils, then blended it before adding the lye) and no volcanoes, no overheating, and no gelling really either, even though most of my soaping was done in a semi-tropical country, with high humidity. And it increased the...

I'm with @Jorah ... I'm SO impressed! That's so much neater and beautiful than mine. I started making much more humble soaps, and some were mere lumps. All I can say, is WOW. ETA: Oh, and Welcome to the Forum! Left me speechless and rude! So sorry!! 😍 😍 😍 Not excusable!!

I ordered some samples from BB, one of which is the Coffee Shop FO, which I plan to use in my coffee and cocoa soap. But I was thinking of using molasses for the honey, and I saw YOUR post chime in on the forum at the Top! The Soapy Universe is talking to me! 🌌 😂 I've been too sick to soap for...

I'm back to say that there's a cheaper alternative to my above recipe, to make it even more accessible to those who don't have access to a digital scale at home, but for whom you can print out a recipe (or they can copy quite easily from a board or a notebook). I found that for hard fats at a...

I was making soap in El Salvador for at least 2 yrs, a very humid country. I would make my soap with a 5% SF, like yours, no more than 15% coconut 76°F, anywhere from 30 to 50% olive oil, BUT I'd use a brine, meaning at least 6% sea salt content in my water which I'd use to dilute my lye. That...