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No, really! 🐁🐀 The mention of the cultured rats on someone else's post caught my attention! And reminded me of the nibbled bar. Here at my younger son's house there's not much space for curing my soap, so I decided to put it in the garage on a wooden chest that no one likes. There's nothing...

My grief with soaping in general is that my mental acuity isn't sharp enough for me to rely on it for accurate mathematical calculations. Right now I know I'm on the edge of a migraine simply because I'm not using simple English to write this post. Too often lately, if I try to make even the...

I first brought up my Chrome page, saved from when I got the SAP values day before yesterday for CB. The text field was blank, but the SAP value was the same as before. I recycled the page by tapping the circle with the arrow turning counterclockwise, and I picked "Beeswax". That gave me the...

I was reading this post (ok, I was sticking my soapy nose in! 🧼) and decided to go see if I got the same SAP results for CB as OP, and yep. See the screenshot below. I'm not using an app, just my smartphone browser, Chrome, updated in the background constantly. I opened a new tab, navigated to...

😂 The linemen these bars are intended for are "manly men", they don't care about looks! *snort, guffaw* Seriously though, my pride did win out a bit so the veg peeler came out and I did try to smooth some of the rougher edges out. As for that yellow rind, I've never had it before, even with a...

@Tara_H and @ResolvableOwl, yes, both of you understood my scrambled explanation that I somehow increased my CO by 10%, and lowered my OO by the same amount. I was hoping to get a fairly mild soap for a hard water area with a target audience (my son, his 2 friends) that work in the dirt and mud...

Earlier this week, I created a modified version of a recipe I've already made before. A lard/OO/CO76/Castor (%: 50/30/15/5). I include a photo of my printed recipe with notes, because it illustrates the glaring mistake I made that I didn't see until just now. My oil percentages (amounts) are ALL...

Something that isn't related to the softness or hardness of your soap, but that I picked up on in your comment, that you had to re-run your recipe through your lye calculator. I don't know if you didn't keep a hard (paper) copy of it, or didn't save it to a note app, or just the lye/soap...

I tend to be a risk taker when it comes to trying new hobbies, but soaping was the first time I felt the need to be cautious. Not least because of the lye. I watched a few videos on YouTube, especially Soaping101's channel, and though she is phenomenal as a teacher, she also emphasizes safety...

At my son's friend's house, in San Antonio, I was using his Kitchen Aid SB, and I got used to the froth in my soaps. I just learned to tap dance my molds across the counters before I set them to harden. Now I'm in Juneau, WI and I've bought a Hamilton Beach, just like the one I left back home...

If you think about it, the coconut oil is there to contribute suds and lather to your soap, not necessarily to help prevent loss of skin lipids. In fact, the more coconut oil is used in a soap, the higher the cleansing factor. So, if you want to lower your SF, also lower your CO to however less...

Depending on how the lard was rendered, and how discerning your nose is, or whoever is going to use your soaps, there's a good chance it's not going to smell like bacon. Firstly because bacon is a particular meat product, think Italian sausage, versus breakfast sausage. You wouldn't confuse the...

1. Lard 2. Lard Like @Zany_in_CO said, think how Grandma dealt with her cooking and lack of choices in the kitchen. My 2 biological grandmothers were Salvadoran and I know for a fact that, at least my city Grandma, her favorite soap was made with lard and wood ash. They were sold at the local...

I still, to this day, remember that failed soap batch. It was my very first HP batch ever, I didn't have a stick blender, nor even a hand blender! I was trying out using mango puree, and the soap gods only know why on EARTH I was even attempting to make soap at almost 10 at night, after trying...

I'm going to offer some help because of something I read elsewhere in this forum, but I'm not remotely veg, so I can't offer any help with a recipe. I can sympathize however because I have Lupus, the systemic kind, and I've become slowly intolerant to many foods and chemicals, to the point that...

Welcome to the world of soap!

Wow. I have tons of butter. And lard. Maybe I will make a tiny, TINY, bar of it just to see what happens. I'm housebound in Texas. What else am I supposed to do? Oh, wait, crochet. Right. I've also been making soap coasters. For the rancid soap I'll make something dainty.

I'm asking now, before I have a possible mess on my hands. I have a working table in my garage and shortly before hell froze over I had made a 3kg batch of lard heavy soap. Mostly fragranced with eo's. It had only been about 4 days and they were still sticky in their molds so I hadn't removed...

Believe me, the UTI issue lasted so long that I heard all the advice I'd already heard and some that I found enlightening. Now I'm on something called Imiprex (the generic spelling is weird).

Thanks for being understanding, I truly appreciate it!