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Thank you, interesting! Any idea why bicarbonate? I also added in mine 2 teaspoon of salt in the lye solution, and even if lye concentration was around 20% i had problems in dissolving it... I'm an aleppo soap estimator unfortunatly laurel fruits oil is too hard to find and very expensive...

First of all thank you all for the answers About DOS something is missing, (and probably is lye) in the sense that in my opinion the problem happens because of the too much superfats. I have at home soaps from olive oil that are years, some one decades old, included some Aleppo soap without any...

The oil is 4 or 5 years old I think (I don't exactly remember), it was EVOO made by me from my olives, it's quite rancid but just little worst than some oil sold as "new". I read about DOS, but I don't care, in the sense that this oil is to throw away. so i'm just having fun and experimenting...

Thank you!! In the next attempts I would like to add aromas, as I say I don't like to waste things, so I'd like to find a way to obtain and preserve as much as possible the aroma. - In theory the hot process Vs the cold, Hot one should be the one that give the best, but in practice? - Melt and...

Hi all, I'm new, I decided to sign in this forum because I have to use around 70kg of old Extra Virgin olive oil so I decided to start making and experimenting on soap. I'm a chemist and I read all I can on the argument for the last week. So I learn a lot also from this forum and I finally...

Thank you for welcoming I don't like recipes but I'm not a criminal!!! :D:D

Hi all, I'm new here, I'm Francesco, from Italy, I'm a Pharmaceutical-Chemist and I decided to sign in to learn something from who have more experience than me in soapmaking, I like to experiment and I dont like recipes :D Hope to learn and give my help in what I know!