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I've never heard of a "masterbatch" or 50/50 mix. Can someone explain what this is, why you do it and the benefits?

I'm looking at getting into making some candles in addition to soap. I have experience in both and I know the hassles of making candles. In the past I have used different size dixie cups which has worked out pretty well as well as mason jars, but those are a little expensive if not being...

When i started I always lined my moulds with a paper as I thought it was needed. I found that the wax pater, if left on the soap too long, would "melt/meld" onto the soap and became a nightmare to remove. This never happened with the parchment paper. I used the parchment paper to line...

IDK if any of you have noticed this or if I'm the only one who experiences this but when I mix my lye water I always seem to end up having less than the sum of what I added. So if I add 1kg water and 400g lye I might get 1290-1370g of solution. I don't know if there is water boiling off and...

TLDR all the posts, but those saying that oil is 40% of the recipe are VERY far off. Let's say we use the default 38% water, 5% superfat and 41g of fragrance per kg of oil (18.63g per lb) - that is about 30% more than the .5oz/lb of oil standard in some calculators - this is really negligible...

Well I'll have to disagree with the 55oz. My calculations are 76oz of soap to fill that. Now if the question is how much oil do you need to fill that, then the question would be what % of water do you use, what SF % and what amount of fragrance do you use. If you are using the 38% H2O that...

I was heating some oil to put through a filter and I got the temp on the obern set incorrectly and the oil started smoking a little. The over was set to just under 500 but IDK what temp it really was, probably a little lower as I think my oven is a little off. The oil was olive oil, grade A...

I was recently informed that this process isn't the curing process, I thought it was part of the curing process, so now I'm wondering what it is actually called. What is the actually requirements for a good gelling to take place, what temps need to be sustained, etc. One member said that...

I'm trying to figure out why some of my soaps, from the same recipe/batch, behave differently than those in other moulds. For example, I have a 1 3/4" pvc pipe mould that I usually pour first because the soap is at it most pourable and it flows better into the small enclosed mould. I then...

I just had an issue with a recipe I made which I was lucky enough to catch before I had a major problem. my oil weights were 50% more than what I had measured. I couldn't figure out what was going on so I got out an old scale and tested the calibration between them. The scale I was using (a...

disproving some hemp stereotypes. Thanks for all the prompt replies! I'm still going to go through my old recipes and see what did what. I know for a fact that when I started my first two recipes ended up getting them after about 8 weeks and I had used a brand new bottle of vegetable oil...

I seem to find that some recipes tend to prodigiously produce these nasty looking spots after some time while other recipes seem immune to the issue. All my soaps are made and stored the same and all come from the same source for ingredients. I do tend to put a fairly large variety of...

I was looking at a supplier and they had both and the Olein is on special for the same price. Is this better for some applications? Does anyone know the difference?

It is room temp - straight from the store. It is "classico Olive Oil" and not "EVOO or VOO". I have never bought non EVOO before so I thought maybe it may be from part of the extraction process or something.

I just bought some OO today, it is name brand starting with a B ending in an I. It looks like there is some cloudiness in it, but not really bad. I haven't seeen this before in oil. Can anyone identify this?

Well, none of that is going to happen with my market. This is a needed product for numberous times a year. They must be scent free from BO to perfume and even as little human scent as possible. I know I can tell them diet can help, but they need any additional advantages they can get prior to...

I'm looking for somethign that I can use to mix my EO's and FO's as well as pigments to gether without using the larger stick blender. I'm having a hard time finding what they are called. I found "milk frothers" but some of these don't really look like what might be required. Does anyone...

Does anyone have any additives or recipes for soaps that eliminate odor and keep odor away (both body odor and any soap scents?). I know baking soda is a good odor absorber but IDK how it fairs as a soap ingredient as it is a base. I would think anything anti-microbial & anti-bacterial that...

I think some people understood the point of the post as it is a lot of legwork to find what additivies are available or possible. Legwork isnt' the problem, it's jut that a lot can be missed and it wouldn't even be known that it was missed. With a thread like this, people can see what has been...

What I have found strange is that I can't find light or plain OO that is less expensive than EVOO.