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I must have been doing the AC wrong all this time. I never hydrate my AC. I just mix it with some oil just before mixing into my separated batch. This is the first I've heard of hydrated AC and clay! But I haven't had an issue, my swirls look good, and I haven't heard of any complaints either. I...

ok, I usually give these kinds of bars to family and friends. just making sure that they are safe.

does that make the soap bad, will it hurt some one?

Good to know you'r not a lye-er!:lolno:

not going to lye, but what is stearic spots? Yes, I am redoing my blend. I already started testing a new eo blend.

here are some pictures. the small bowl is what i could not add to the soap after it seized, I cut them up and will use as imbeds in an other batch. The last picture is of the first mold I made. I wonder if what I see is the oil separation. I see little dots.

From the lack of water, I did noticed it was less clear. I have stirred before and nothing ever happen. I was wondering about the Clove myself, and from your description of false trace, It never liquify after I added the wine, plus I had a small amount sat aside for the colorant that had...

Sorry about the confusion. I was going for the light trac to avoid my oils from seizing. Here is my Recipe and weights: Coco 19.1 oz OO 18.0 oz Castor .50 oz Soy bean 6.90 Almond 4.25 Grape 4.25 and I use Cocoa powder with sunflower oil (.50oz) to mix the cocoa colorant. I used a Clove blend...

rt for room temp lye. That is an idea, I will do a test batch for adding the wine to the lye water. I held back the wine because that is the way I learned how to make the wine soap. When it comes to soap making there are 6 ways to Sunday.

I thought about that, and even when I was measuring I asked myself if I had measured correctly. The only element I added that is new is Kaolin clay. I added a teaspoon to the oils and mixed with a stick blender before adding the lye. I've been doing it this way for regular soap, this is the...

Yeah, I let it sit too, the lye mixture was made the night before, when I poured the lye, I stirred to make sure there was no chunks of lye, I noticed it heated up. I could feel the heat through my gloves. Normally I give it a stir...this time I stirred and stirred and stirred. So I figured it...

This was weird, I was making a wine soap and the batter seized before I poured the wine. That shouldn't happen. Last nite I made a 3 lb loaf with the same recipe and that loaf turned out great. Today that same recipe seized. The lye was rt, but I noticed floaties, so I stirred the lye water. I...

You have great design.

I started making soap this evening and was going to start cooking spaghetti.....thought about it for a second....nah.

So you didn't like it? Did you smell like coffee for long?

I will be calling my library too! Is there a lot of people waiting to use the printer? Just wondering if there are many doing this 3d printing.

Thanks, I will see how the purple does in a couple of days. I hope that it doesn't fade too much.

I have been putting this off for a year. I hate experiments. I have Alkanet Root and infused it for a couple of days with Sunflower oil. It was very dark in color, the oil was. I used 1 oz to 4 oz of oil. Here is how it worked. Should I have use more. I used one oz to 3 lb loft. At first it was...

I would have liked to have seen what he had. It's these kind of people that can ruin the market.

I always look for cosmetics products before I started soaping, didn't know how bad it was. What I have learn from soaping.:smile: