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The ammonium smell is normal and will fade during the cure. The milk may turn yellow or orange but isn't necessarily scorched just heated up a bit. When it scorches it turns brown Primrose, Obsidian and Isg, I threw out a perfectly useable 15.4 0z of beautiful, raw GM. I thought it was that I...

Wow, I threw out my goat milk thinking I ruin it. I am so blessed to know that it was perfect. It had that amonia smell....only at the end, after I added more than the usual that I had been putting in (a tlb sp at a time). I can now rest assure that it was good and it would have been beautiful...

I made my first full batch of goat milk soap. I made a tester earlier last week, it was not as white as I thought it would be. The temp for the test was right abut 80 degrees. Was an 18 0z batch. I keep the raw milk in a bath of ice water. Used Lavender eo, nice for the first time. Tonite, I...

What is YMMV?

what is OMH?

As long as the soap feels good, then its all good. I like you cigar wrap too.

what fo did you use?

Not in the mold.

I made GM last night and my soap is a creamy color, not white, I thought I smell ammonia, then I thought it was in my head because the lye didn't have a strong odor of it, or any for that matter. What I found out during my batch making: I needed to keep my lye from moisture in the air, so I...

how much time do you use between a "bit at a time"?

do you know how old the book is. I find it funny, lot of people ask how to make soap, I always say that its a lot like cooking.

I wonder how much is label appeal? I use food grade NaOH, even though we all know that lye does cancel out, my audience does not. I buy from a Chem Company in Sac, CA, a lb comes to 2.40, the break down is do able for the price of my soap. Since I have this face that I make when talking to...

Ok.

I wasn't sure about that, ok, maybe I should try a little honey in my soap too. That actually sounds good. Thanks. So if I use Rooto to cure my olives, that's ok, since it takes lye for that? This is a set-up question, because what I really want to say is that, if its not safe for my food, then...

First, you're asking questions that will be answered when you start to make your own soap. You can get info, research....some, but the real proof will be when you start to make soap. The best teacher is our mistakes. You will never know if jojoba is an oil you want to use unless you use it, see...

Pretty, no matter how many years I have under my belt, soap making will keep me on my toes.

I use Indigo blue powder in my salt bars, it took a while to find out that I needed to use a natural dye that has no mordant (I think that's what it's call), the mordant is what helps keep dye on fabric. I called a dye place that has natural dyes from plants and animals, they had the indigo...

ok, good to know that one is not related to the other. Just when you think you mastered a soap.....no matter how many years I will have under my belt, soap making was keep me on my toes forever.

I wonder if false trace could do that.