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OMG people can actually *do* that? Awesome. ;)

I found this little wiki-style page during one of my searches this morning. I like it,likely because of it's pure techno-science-geek approach to soap … forget the aesthetics, let's go "amphipathic". Anyways, some others here may enjoy /appreciate it...

Strong hot alkali (soapers' lye) attacks the Silicon - Oxygen bonds in glass, and literally dissolves the glass. Original pyrex was a borosilicate glass, more chemical and thermal stable than most, but it was still glass. Modern pyrex is not so resistant. What happens is the lye slowly eats...

I cannot claim expertise...except perhaps at soap mess-ups … but the oil combo looks nice to me. Some people may prefer less coconut oil (it cleans really well, but can sometimes make sensitive-skin folk a little irritated), perhaps with a little more castor oil (bubbles, bubbles, bubbles) or...

welcome.

Half way between there and Mildura. Even lovelier bush and river, but damn hot when it chose. Yeah, have been tracking the weather. Needing a jacket likely to be the least of their problems right now. At least they will have new soap when they get back … starting with (Zany's) seawater Castile...

Don't worry. I had my Do'oh! moment as I was looking for bicarb. I have commandeered one of our large earthquake water bottles for my main water supply (Awakairangi spring water, sounds good too) but just grabbed a large square cake container for the seawater, and waded in at Lowry Bay to...

Whoah, TYVM. That is a new soap-fact to try and assimilate … and explains some of my mysterious observations. Thanks.

I have just popped 500ml of OO and 116ml of 1.7:1 seawater lye solution under cover to sit overnight. Real seawater is easy enough to gather here and I hope that whatever-temperature-it-is-tomorrow will be adequate for the process … at least I will know their temperatures are the same. Here's...

Neat. I grew up next door, about 800km to your SW on the Murray … admittedly a bit closer to Glenrowan :-) My partner and daughter fly over your way in the wee small hours tomorrow. I get to drive them to the airport at an even smaller hour :-( Daughter straight down to Canberra for a...

The most similar 'single' fats to palm oil are the animal fats lard and beef tallow. They are both pretty much interchangeable with palm oil, up to a point, and where I live they're less expensive … tallow being less than 1/3 the cost of palm oil. Tallow is cheap because there's a fair bit made...

Glenrowan OFC :-)

Lots of great advice up there. I'm not entirely sure but it seems to boil down to "Surrender, for you are lost … may as well go make more soap." Dean had me WTFLOLing and surreptitiously hoping to not get caught fondling soap. My special empathy chuckle went out to Cellador's observation...

Eber's Papyrus (ca 1550BC)? I suspect ancient Chinese scholars will have relevant writings too, but they're not accessible to me.

أهلا وسهلا I hope the forum provides all the soap-making support you could ever wish for.

Welcome aboard. I'm gonna hafta make myself a cutter like that. Partner keeps noticing when the large kitchen knives disappear off for a soap-cutting foray.

Welcome. May the forums assist you in attaining copious craftily created, non-toxic, super-inexpensive soaps.

Welcome aboard. Cute babies there. May you have many more.

Welcome, welcome. Yup, very bad sign. Still, I think there are ample people here to help with your demise.

Today I read a number of links and learned that glycerine rivers were not-at-all what I thought. I decided to try and capitalise on that newfound knowledge and copy the marbled coffee soap idea. Messed-up batch 1 with probably-contaminated castor oil. Batch 2 in the oven now. Learnings so far...