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You should be able to melt and stir the remainder, to get things distributed evenly in what's left, I would think? I don't use a lot of palm, but it will still make soap. Just maybe slightly different from what a fresh batch of palm might give. Anyone know for sure who uses palm often?

You're using palm. Did you melt the entire container and stir well each time you used it? Some of that could be stearic streaks, and improperly melted-mixed palm can also wreak havoc on your recipe. Could be part of the issue. Agree also with triple-checking all measurements as weight...

It's not a fail, it just decided it wanted to be a flower instead of a feather this time.

Ok, so experiment number 3- I decided to try a totally new recipe that I've been thinking about. It's all liquid oils, so that obviously affects the hardness of the finished paste -- this is definitely the softest paste of the three. The PKO, which is rock-hard at room temp also made a hard...

Should be. Cocoa butter can be off-white in large amounts, but a 100% shea bar is white in the single-oil swap results, and i've not had a problem in my recipes.

DeeAnna, yes, that's pretty much it. I use roughly equal water to the KOH, and I have soapcalc set at 38% so I base my total liquid amount off of that, give or take a bit. Ummm, that's kindof a beginning number for me to estimate with.. Sometimes I fiddle the water and glycerin numbers to get...

Palm is the worst, as far as needing melted and stirred. The stearic tends to drift to the bottom when it gets melty, and then you have varying amounts of stearic in your batches of soap, if you haven't either melted and stirred each time, or at least done what was mentioned as far as melting it...

I used 7%. I think it would be fine at 5%.

That's me! Ms. Unexpected! lol. I have a habit of experimenting a LOT. I have a lot of so-so stuff sitting in my closet due to that. But I've also come up with some really nice stuff too. Some of it is strictly for me and my family, due to cost, but some of it will be going into my list of stuff...

Yay! So glad to hear it!

LOL - check now. :) I don't know how many will agree with it, and YOU may not agree with it, but it does work, it's just expensive. There's always other ways to eliminate palm, but so far, either lard or a mango/shea combo are my favorites. Of course I don't sell, and if I was, I probably...

Olive oil can make a more creamy soap rather than white, especially if your olive oil is darker colored. I haven't noticed that so much with palm... I have made some very white soaps that have palm in them, as well as very white ones with shea butter, but that depends on the darkness of the...

No, you don't dilute either EO or FO before adding to your soap. The soap batter is what dilutes them in this case. Same with formulating lotions. You DO however dilute them for things like perfume oils that you will be applying to skin, as then there's no other product diluting it. So for...

LOL I used to maintain client's websites for years, to the neglect of my own... and I had a client who decided one day he was going to update his own... I had given him a manual with exact instructions how to add posts, photos, etc. With screenshots and arrows and all that nifty stuff. But he...

Yeah, I just realized I have to get more jugs to store the diluted soap in. I thought I had another one, but can't find it. Of course it will appear in plain sight once I've ordered more lol. So it will be a few days before diluting. I did test a pinch of the paste though, easy because it's...

Yep, that's what mine do, looking for the mouse game lol.

LOL, no, they're both girls lol.

Thickened and scented a previous batch of liquid soap. Made a new batch of liquid soap and of 100% CO laundry soap. Played with my new ph meter. Just simple stuff right now, none of the recipes I want to be playing with *sigh* I have so many ingredients in my cupboard and no energy to use them...

Update: It's reproduceable. Just tried again, this time with Coconut oil instead of PKO. And the right amount of SF this time lol Used 454g CO 128g water 110g glycerin 128g KOH (90% pure) 35g blend of lemon and litsea EO's. This took a bit longer than the PKO to get moving, but once it...

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