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Hi I've been struggling to find much information about how the room temperature you are soaping at influences your cp soap. I work at around 100F and my recipe is 30% OO, 30% CO, 30% palm, 10% castor, 6% superfat, 33% lye concentration. My room temperature is super cold (its start of spring here...

I made this for a competition on facebook for christmas soaps and i'm quite proud. The decorations were made from soap dough and its supposed to be a christmas cookie with icing/snow and the decorations on top

Wow thank you for your reply!! 1. my stickblender has a plastic bell and no rust (despite years of use) so i'm guessing its not aluminium 2. i have used coconut oil in almost all of my soaps, always from the same brand. So it definitely might be the source of the smell. In terms of water, I...

I guess its not the soap being rancid since I've never used rancid oils and no colour changes. I actually haven't used any other handmade soaps but my own. I haven't thought of the possibility but seeing as I'm used to the smell of commercially made soap maybe its a scent present in all handmade...

I've played with quite a few different recipes so I can't say what the percentages are. I don't use anything aluminium. The only thing that could possibly have it is my stick blender but i dont have a way to check. i use 33% lye concentration (although I have changed it around between different...

I have been using different molds so i dont think that is the case :( although i have definitely 'stained' my silicone mold with lots of fragrances

Hello so I've make several batches of CP soap but every single one has a weird salty/rancid scent. It is strongest immediately after making and mellows out. It doesn't fully go away because I have a bar from 4 years ago that still has this problem. Strange thing is, its not noticeable from the...

My one was....terrible. I cheaped out and didn't get a stick blender. I used cheap plastic molds and cheap oils. BUT I wanted my soap to be good so I added activated charcoal with tea tree oil thinking that I was going to succeed...the soap never came to trace. It was separating but because of...

So one of the reasons I moved from MP to CP soap is not CP has a much wider range of options when it comes to texture. And one of the things that intrigued me the most was soap dough. So I have tried soap dough before (store bought) and it wonderful - feels slightly like polymer clay. It isn't...

This is a VERY late reply, but I think I have figured it out. For a soap to mix properly it should be in a circular container. After a few experiments, I found that mixing in a rectangular or square container actually doesn't emulsify the oils at the corners. So although it looks emulsified, it...

I used a hot pad but maybe they were heated too high. I guess I need to check that out

Strangely the soap is perfectly fine. I would say they are the best soaps I have made except for the smell. And one of my soaps was unscented plus I love tea tree!

I don'y use any metal. I store my soaps on a plastic tray with plenty of space between each

The recipe I used for the soap I'm talking about had 75% coconut oil, 35% olive oil with a 15% superfat. There were no other additives and it went through gel phase. My other recipe that also had this happen was 30% palm oil, 30% lard, 20% coconut oil, 10% olive oil, 10% castor oil with a...

I have made some soaps recently and in just a few days of curing, they had smelled absolutely rancid. I let them cure for a month now and the scent is less pungent but I can smell it on my skin when I use it. I know for sure that my oils were not rancid because they were bought the day I made...

Absolutely. I used a superfat of 5%. The lye was bought from a soapmaking website, which I have used in other batches and worked out fine

I made soap in a square ice cream container...all my other mixing bowls seemed to disappear into thin air. The strangest thing happened. It didn't trace! And I know for sure that I had everything right. It was the trusty 30% coconut 30% palm 30% olive and 10% castor. Absolutely strange. I made a...

What an absolute horrid person. That is totally rude! Shame on her! Don't let it ruin your day :)

Hi everyone! I wanted to update this thread incase anyone else came across this. So mini blenders DO NOT WORK. If you use one that it is very high in quality it might, but a mini mixer is pretty much useless. It gets the mixture to thin trace (practically separating thin trace) and then the...

I'm almost certain it wasn't lye drops. I had it trace to thick trace and plus, it pH test at 8. I am still not sure what it is but I did notice that it smelled like rancid oil. Except the rest of the bar didn't...hmmm...