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Thank you, @Servant4Christ I was starting to think I had hallucinated the whole thing.

Did you try searching the forum? I feel like this was discussed once upon a time.

I'm just wondering how you picked this one to replicate. Is this a soap that you or a friend likes?

NaOH vs KOH is a good indication of bar vs liquid. If the recipe (like this one) uses only NaOH, then it will be solid.

So, you don't CPOP because you don't want fragrance to stick in your oven. Have you tried other methods of forcing gel? (Sorry if this was touched on-- I may have missed a post)

That's just what happens. The oil absorbs into the soap and leaves the mica behind. You can mix it with a little soap batter instead, but you would lose that shininess of the mica. I don't know of another way to get shiny mica swirls. I wonder if you could use clear melt and pour instead of oil.

If you search the forum up above, you'll find lots of conversations about this from over the years. Just search "ash" or "wood ash." 🔍

I'm not sure what you mean by hardener. If you mean, what made all those oils into a hard bar of soap, then that would be lye. It's not listed, because they are listing what's in the soap after saponification. The lye has all reacted through the process, so it is not listed.

Thanks for sharing. I considered grape seed oil at one point, but it has a short shelf life so I decided against it. You can search the forum for information on why pH testing is problematic in soap making. I suspect it's a colorful way of referring to potential for a volcano.

@A-Polly has a good recommendation here with the Lab Muffin videos. Sunscreen is one of her specialty topics.

When did you make the soap?

Have you tried adding the honey to your oils instead of to the lye water? You can loosen it up by warming it a little in the microwave if necessary and then blend it directly into your oils. I haven't used honey in a while, but that's how I did it and I don't remember having any trouble with...

As a person who never used a book, I think your next step is to start playing with a lye calculator and make your own recipes. Start by putting one of the book recipes into a calculator and then tweak it. When I started incorporating colors and making swirls, I had already found this forum...

It's a little bit of extra oil added to the recipe.

The saga of growing up continues! Gaius and Pax have flown off to Ireland for a missions trip! While in transit, they stopped in Belfast and got to see a little of the July Twelfth parade before catching a train. They are boys, so who knows how much I'll actually hear from them.

Can you just reduce the liquid in a given recipe? Add it little by little until it's what you like?

If the embed didn't work out, you could stamp the bars after they are cut. I know is not the same, but it would convey the same idea to the team.

The link is for the recipe.

I redid the math about 5 times before I was sure there was a mistake...

And the remaining 5% can be castor oil, or could be more liquid oil or palm oil.