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I dont know what your recipe is but with it not going to gel in your individual molds, how long does it take you to unmold?

The parchment paper seemed to get wilty looking. Will have to order some freezer paper since it sounds more sturdy. Thanks for the heads up with the butcher paper!

Where do you easily find freezer paper? I didn't find any at publix or Walmart but that may be because of covid.

So just an update, I probably should have waited another day or so before cutting because it was softer than what I would like and a bit stickyish but went ahead and sliced em up. Its a pretty lemon curd color so far but already seeing a darker rind starting. I have been using brambleberry's 10"...

I don't sell soap and not at the point whatsoever but I found this forum post to be eye opening and informative. :) https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/are-you-ready-to-sell-your-soap.16002/

So impatient. Dying to get home to see if its hard enough to cut with my wire cutter. I just make soap for myself and for family. My mom is hyped up about goat milk soap, so excited to send some to her in the coming weeks. Want it to turn out good. Will be curious to see how lo g it takes to...

Thanks for the clarification. Out of curiosity you say you don't have overheating issues so I'm assuming that your soap doesn't turn brown?

Freezing the milk before hand adds an extra step. What temperature are your oils at? Was a pain to make room in the freezer since it's small. So when should one put soap in the freezer? I used a discoloring FO and when I pulled it out of the freezer, to the fridge, now on the counter its still a...

I could see how the original post left out some details. I suppose straining out the bits of fat took away from some of the moisturizing SF factor from the goats milk.

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I didn't add citric acid. Was curious to, but didn't want to risk it. Yeah, it had an interesting perfume to it when the lye got mixed in lol the hottest the lye solution got was 98 F I used a FO that would discolor brown just in case it burned. I did use TD to make it hopefully come out a...

Yeah, sorry I didn't specify about that part. I kept the distilled water to the side to add some lye in to get it hot enough to dissolve the silk. You mention the fat in the goat milk reacting to the lye. Do you bother to strain those out or do you leave it in? I watched some YouTube video and...

That sounds reasonable to me. Would hate to break my cutting wire.

Very concerned about that. Feels like I may have postponed the inevitable. I made a beer soap a few weeks ago and that bad boy heated right up and cracked on the top within the first few hours. It was hard enough to cut after I found it overheated. I didn't freeze or refrigerate that one. If...

33% lye concentration, 5% superfat, 2.5 oz Coffee FO, 8.55 Goat milk, 1.3 Distilled water, tussah silk, sodium lactate This is my first time attempting to make a milk soap. I froze my measured out milk. I used the distilled water portion to dissolve the tussah silk in. Strained the milk/lye...

Definitely a lot of good information on here, learned more here than several books. It's easy to follow recipes but getting to the point where I want to try experimenting and finding out what qualities I like. Since starting to make soap, I know I won't find a moisturizing one but trying to...

I'm not sure how reliable the sources are but https://www.naturesgardencandles.com/blog/sodium-lactate/ She didn't notice too much of a difference long run. https://www.modernsoapmaking.com/updated-lather-lovers-additive-testing/ She doesnt mention anything about lather, just hardness...

Oh, didn't realize that. Newb here. I looked on soapnicalc and it auto selects the lye concentration. The recipe is at 33% lye concentration. Guess the better question is, is it worth it to make an all liquid oil soap? From some of the things I read some people say all olive oil soap is the...

How do I find the lye concentration? I assumed that using less water would make it easier to unmold?

I made a castile (just olive) batch of soap 6 months ago, still letting it cure for 6 more months before using. I didn't use any additives as it was my first soap. Tried it a month ago and still very slimy. I want to make another batch but with canola oil to help with cost and supposedly it's...