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Hi, 1. That is what I do.... have 1-2 basic soaps and then make many variations with the fragrances and additive. I would suggest that you give our samples to friends and family (if you don't already) and see how they like your basic soap recipe.... then try to tweak it if you get negative...

As mentioned above, it is soda ash. A few tips were mentioned above. Some others that worked for me: Looks like you used molds- leave the soap to cure in molds longer...then the ash will not appear since the saponification process will be further on. That way 5 sides should be ash free. The ash...

Those bars are beautiful! I love the molds. I tried 2 & 3 tsp ppo in small batch to test it out and quantity had minimal impact on color. I even tried mixing in some red mica (that was not pretty). I tried some Moroccan (1 rose: 2 Moroccan) clay and it helped darken it a bit, but not like the...

This was more of problem in the past when I only had 1 goat we were milking at a time. There are so many variations of what can impact fat and sugar levels (wild plants they are browsing, feed/grain they are on, alfalfa vs grass hay, not to mention the lineage of that goat, etc). I gave up...

Ok, so I added more clay for dark color but as it cured became very light again. So I am thinking it may be as others mentioned ....maybe I gelled the soaps (without realizing it)? I would like to try to gel these milk soap to see if the color pops. In past these bars were soft when I cut them...

@AliOop Those are 2 excellent ideas. I may give the pull string flowers a go. They look pretty cool. Is there any time limit on when you need to add the flowers (in relation to how long the bar has been curing)? Meaning, if the bars are a week old, is it too late to add the flowers to them...

Ok.... I think I am going to go bonkers. I have attached the photos. Apparently, neither the freezer, nor adding the clay to water or oil matters much. The bar on the right is my original one. The one on the left is one of the newer batches (clay added to oil). You can see the difference...

Wow folks! Ok thanks I have several new things to try. I am thinking if I mix all my oils together and then put them on a seeding mat then it should be able to keep the oils pretty liquidly. Maybe I could put it on a timer so it turns on and has warmed them up during mornings when I normally...

I usually use Bulk Apothecary. Any recommendations on another EO vendor that someone uses they like (hopefully that used Lemongrass)?

Your thought about water causing clay to distribute better than oil occurred to me last night too. But I do not remember seeing any clumps in cut bars or on bottom. So maybe the oil just caused it to clump in tiny well distributed clumps? I don't know..... So this morning I started a two-part...

Hi, This has a been a problem for some time now. Most people do not care (probably because they did not see soap when I was cutting it), but it bothers the heck out of me. So I make a soap and it turns out really nice. I cut it the next day to see glorious yellow color....thinking this time will...

Well, thank you for the nice compliments. Yeah, I am pretty sure those grapefruit bars did not overheat. We use the freezer now because we had a few batches of other soaps that did overheat (crack, have some gel rings in center, etc). We use goat milk in our soaps so sometimes depending on what...

Hi, I used our goats milk the first time without paying too much attention to how fast I added the lye to the milk and water. It turned a yellow color because of scorching. I thought "Bonus, a free colorant!". But sadly once I brought the soap out to use, my wife banned it. She said it smelled...

Hello All, I have a strange issue I am facing. In the past I did a few batches of grapefruit EO scented CP soap with Rose clay. My notes show that I used 2 teaspoons ppo. I did this several times over the last year. They came out very nice pink color that I really liked (see below). But now...

Hi, We only make goat milk soap from our farm. We have more and more people buying and I am not quite sure how we can scale up successfully. I have two main goals: a) produce bigger batches to save time and to reduce time per batch. I am interested in trying to move up from our current 9 lb...

Let me revise my statement from before... I am an impatient dope. Thanks DeeAnna that is a great idea. If this happens again I will try it. For some reason I felt like I had some limited time to react (not sure why). Here is what I tried (before I saw your great idea): - heated knife up but...

Hi all, I am a big dope. I made 100% coconut oil soap. And it looks like it came out amazing! But alas, I fell asleep and missed my cutting window. The bars are super hard. I tried to cut with a heated knife, but it basically crumbled. Since there does not seem to be a need for 2.5 lb bars of...

Hello, I have been trolling on this site for over a year. I have been making small batches of soap for 2 + yrs and learned so much from your forum! I really appreciate all the info. Now I am moving on to bigger batches with friends and family demanding more of the soaps. I make mostly Goat milk...

Ok, Thanks for the recommendations. I will get a fan setup to blow across them and elevate on cookie racks. For the lower temps, what would you recommend? I found one site online saying 110 -140F (seems kinda high) and then another saying 70-80F for milk and 120F for the oils? And then another...

I need some help figuring out what I am doing wrong with my goat milk soap. I have had several batches of soap over the last few months where this has occured. Some of them are using EO blends that have not changed.....nor a recipe that changed. It seems almost to randomly to occur. You can see...