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You can get a basic digital scale for about $10 at amazon or other online stores. when you're working with something as caustic as lye, you really need to be accurate or you will have unsafe soap. You CAN get away with stirring with a whisk... but you will spend hours this way... :( A stick...

That's the soap/borax/washing soda ratio I use also. for our large HE front-loader in our community laundry room, we use 2 tbsp. For our HE mini-front-loader in our apt, we use 1tbps per load. Have just done 100% CO for laundry soap so far.

AND glycerin has to be heated a LOT to dissolve the same amount of lye as a much smaller amount of water. So it's just much easier to dissolve it in water and add in the glycerin.

yeah, cook time and dilution ratio vary from recipe to recipe, and whether it tests perfectly clear or not really is based a lot on your SF level. With a SF of 3%, if you've cooked till zap-free and translucent, should be good to go! Also, when you're diluting the little amount for the test...

When I dilute my fresh paste, I just dump it in the crockpot with 1:1 water, put the lid on, set it to low, and go to bed. I don't start stirring until most of it's dissolved, I just don't have the energy for that... lol. When I wake up, it's usually mostly diluted, and then's when I start...

I usually cook it. I always leave the water at whatever it says on soapcalc. That thread with the fast CP liquid soap was an experiment, and although I love how it turned out, I don't know how it will act with other recipes. THAT will be my next experiment! :) I don't know if it's just fast...

Lots of older photographs lack a smiling subject.... the film took so long to properly expose back then, that it was very hard to hold a smile exactly right for that long. :) Much easier to hold a serious expression. LOL to me, she actually looks like she has a fairly happy-looking serious...

FDA website says this: Also, another part of the FDA lists some companies and products that incorrectly attributed drug claims to their cosmetics, and what exactly they needed to fix on their labels. for example this warning letter shows that they include consumer testimonials about what...

I used this merlot shimmer mica sample I got in with a supply order. I think from WSP? It was a sample pack of several shimmer micas and a couple lip-safe ones. I didn't add any to this batch, since it's going to be just cleaning soap, not bath or hand soap. But it's tricky. I mixed it in with...

Well, I'm happy to say that it diluted nicely, and made a nice clear golden liquid soap, with no oil floating even though it was done at almost 11%SF instead of 1%, due to me forgetting which KOH type I had. :) Additionally, there is the slightest hint of coconut scent from that natural coconut...

I've been tempted to buy it... gets decent reviews on amazon, and I always try to check that... but I get put off by the shipping costs being nearly as much as the product, and I'm spoiled by my free shipping on amazon and when I buy at SMR or WSP I usually buy enough there for free shipping...

I got mine off of amazon, from Essential Depot. Which now that I read the description, is 90% pure, so my soap has a 10.9% lye discount. Which is why it is a bit cloudy, although not as cloudy today as last night. And not overly drying either. There's no oil rising to the top, which is good...

I really like the 50-50 glycerin method anyhow, it speeds up the cook time on the liquid soap when I HP it. Usually less than half-hour cook time till it's done and zap-free. I think the reasoning with letting CP sit a couple weeks before diluting is to let it finish saponifying... I was...

Too tired to do much lately, but today I experimented a bit, and ended up with 10-minute Liquid Soap.. well, soap paste anyhow. We'll see how long it takes to dilute lol.

I recently read about someone making liquid soap using the CP method, rather than cooking it. I was intrigued, so I figured, I need to make a new batch of dishsoap anyhow, why not? I decided to try with PKO instead of CO, also, just to compare against previous batches. So, I used my usual 1%...

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Yeah, Kingsley has the dark and light wood ones on amazon for about $9. I used to know a place for stuff, lemme dig around my bookmarks a bit.

She looks bitter! Hard eyes, scowling expression with scrunched eyebrows and wrinkled forehead... great job! :-) Actually, kinda reminds me of Magenta or Frankenfurter

What price range are you thinking per bowl to be cost-effective?