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Okay okay, I didn't want to argue, sorry. Nor I want to annoy the whole forum with this. I'm here to learn, and you taught me something saying that my idea can't work. I'll forget it and I'll concentrate in soap making with NaOH, which I already do but I'm at the very beginnings. Thanks again.

This is a very interesting information, I never heard of a way to adapt them to wood ash lye. Thank you. Only one last thing: you say that, despite your efforts of making soap always in the same conditions (same fat, same temperature...) your product isn't always the same. So why do you do it...

Well, about Saponification values I meant that what we already have are values related to pure NaOH or KOH, while wood ash lye is an impure solution of different chemicals. Obviously I don't think to find precise values that tells you EXACTLY how many grams of lye for every gram of fat; just an...

No replies? Was it too technical or maybe just too silly?

Thank you, very interesting! Potash is a sort of dust derived from boiling ashes (of the different plants mentioned above) in the water, am I right? Similar to wood ash lye. But how are saponines related to this? I thought saponines were used as a substitute for soap, especially in some...

Hello, I was wandering around in the forum and I came across African Black Soap. I tried to learn more but I see that ther's a bit of confusion in the net about how to make it. Someone says you must stricly use ashes from some species of African plants, others swear you can get the same result...

Hello everyone, as I said in the introduction, I’m new to soap making practise but I’m very interested in the topic. As many beginners, I originally wanted to try wood ash lye soap-making. After some failed experiments I decided to use NaOH, and things begin to go really better. But I’ve...

Hi everyone, I'm Alessandro from Monza, in Italy. I'm new to soap making and for now I only made some few experiments with the hot process. But I'm interested both in the practical and in the theorethical aspects of soap. I'm sure that here I will find many answer to my question. I take the...