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Hi I have some copper sulphate crystals and would like to add them into soap as I believe it has some amazing antiseptic properties. I have found some articles and free patents for Copper Soaps/Copper Sulphate Soap but the technical jargon is beyond my understanding. My thinking is that it...

I just came across this article that I found quite interesting : ) Hope you do too https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/soap-mummies/

I am wanting to make a hand sanitizer for home and family but have a couple of issues with most of the recipes available. t seems the main ingredients of all I have seen are alcohol (70%+) - either Isopropyl alcohol or ethanol - for the sanitizer part and aloe vera gel or glycerin for the...

I knew the sunflower isn't Castille, but the OO recipe claimed it was - thanks for clarifying :) It makes much more sense . I have been reading up on oleic and linoleic and it appears my sunflower is definitely not HO. I think the best solution is to go back to the drawing board. I hope I...

Everyone, including me, is very happy with the Castille recipe I have but I would like to sell my soaps and, unfortunately, the majority of the population in South Africa cannot afford to pay the prices for an almost pure Olive Oil soap. So I have tried to replace the Olive Oil with Sunflower...

I made my first batch almost a month ago. I found a hot process castile recipe, printed it out and stood there imagining the whole kitchen was going to blow up when I mixed the lye. I was absolutely thrilled the next day when I unmolded and had a real soap I could use there an then. I used the...

Thanks for the feedback. Glad to know it doesn't seem to be ricing but it just makes me more curious about what caused it. The cucumber was pureed and used in a 2:1 ratio - 2 parts cucumber, 1 part water as the total water requirement, the puree was frozen and the water was iced before the...

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Please excuse my ignorance, as I am new to soaping, what is the citric acid for and what does it do? and when would you add it?

I am new to soaping and this is my 5th batch - I have just seen the thread on ricing, volcanoes, etc. Is this ricing? It was an experiment using fresh mint dried in the microwave and added to pureed cucumber as 2/3rds of the liquid component which came to trace and was cooking nicely HP before...

With my nieces and nephews I discovered that the more you strip the oils, the worse the acne and blackheads get. Two of them became increasingly allergic to off the shelf treatments as well and went to a dermatologist. After several medications with no lasting relief, he suggested using extra...

it was definitely sour milk but it didn't have the awful sour milk smell

I am not sure why, but even the milk did not smell off and was only separating so, fortunately, the soap smells just like soap. I am guessing but the only logical reason for little smell in the milk that I can think of is that it is unpasteurised and unhomogenised

Thank you for your feedback. I decided to try anyway and froze the milk by weight ignoring the ratio of milk solids to whey and treating it as whole milk. I also split the batch into 3 and added a little liquid food colouring to 2 parts to see whether I could get a swirl of sorts. That didn't...

can anyone help me with this please?

Hi My name is Colleen and I have just started making soap. After 2 batches I am totally addicted already. I do have a problem though, now that I am hooked, I want to jump right in there and do the more or very advanced processes :) I live on a farm in Cato Ridge, just outside of Durban in South...

Hi I am quite new to soap making and absolutely loving it. I have used a basic hot process recipe to learn (recipe below) and made 2 batches so far. The first was as instructed without the EO. The 2nd I halved at thick trace and moulded for cold process and then added lavender EO and food...