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Are you referring to the side that look whitish and dry? If it is, the whitish part is due to outer layer cooling down faster while the inner part is still gelling. No big deal, you can just cut away the part and use. It will get crumbly over time. The rest of the soap is still usable. (if i am...

Yes. I will think that you need to discount it from the water. So if I use 1 tablespoon of puree, I will take out 1 tablespoon of water as well. Thats my basic guide. As for those harder puree, I will discount slightly less. For avocado, if I use 1 tablespoon of puree, I will only take out...

I would think that it could be due to the butter and you may wish to lower your coconut oil slightly, maybe to 20%. But I would think 45% for butter could be a bit high. Reason is that sometimes too much of a goodness may cause adverse effect instead. Butter is really good in soap, but it still...

Hi Volya, you may want to consider using the re-batching method to add in your puree and cream. I did that to mine using strawberry and yogurt. As it is rebatching, the strawberry smell did not really get destroy by the lye. You need to discount the water used in the lye if you are adding...

I will just line the mold and use it as it is.

@chicklet - based on the notes provided by the teacher, the effect of the protein (amino acide) in the milk will be affected by the change of temperature. the most common release is ammonia odour and the colour will slightly change to light green caused by the sulfur amino acid. I read on the...

I hope you will have an answer to it and share soon. I am having the same problem and I think it getting notorious. I am still working on different formulation to find the most suitable for me. Testing in progress and yet to have an answer.

@kazmi, there is nothing wrong with the process as this is adding the mixture at trace instead of using milk to dissolve the lye. my only question here is whether the temperature at trace will cause changes to the milk adding in at trace. maybe some other expert here will be able to answer...

Hi Ruthie, this is the way that the teacher taught too. That is why there is no need to put on a mask to cover the nose this time when I make the soap. The usual process when we make soap is to cover our nose right.. She also taught me a way that in case a slight difference started to be...

Hi fellow soapers, I believe that alot of you have already tried doing milk soaps and what I am posting here could be something agreeable or non agreeable since we have different school of thoughts here. But still, I would like to share my experience from my milk soap lesson yesterday about...

Hi Bodhi, do you want to try to put a dehumidifier around your soaps to absorb the extra moisture when it get humid? By doing that, the glycerin in the soaps will not have the chance to absorb the water and moisture in the air.

I think there should be no issue with re-batching the soaps. With regards to adding lye, it depends on the amount of oil that you are adding. I won't recommend adding more lye unless you have great lye discount previously.

It has been recommended that the EO should be keep to 3% of the total weight of oil. 1.5lb = 24oz, therefore the EO should be kept to 0.72oz

Looks delicious... U better not leave it around... It really looks like it for eating.. I wish I can do it like you...

I did.. I bought a frangrance call Sweet Musk from Coastalscents. It smell abit light in the bottle and nothing in the CP soap. The soap is meant for my sis but after curing she say it smell awful. I cannot describe the smell but just awful.

Did you manage to salvage the soap?

I saw a nicely cut soap bar here. I am looking forward to try my first salt soap. Still planning in progress and getting ideas here. Just a little question on the salt. I got myself some cooking sea salt for the purpose. It fine grain salt. I use the sale to make salt bath scrub (soak in abit...

Thanks all. Since I never put preservatives, I will update again on how long it take to spoil in a humid and hot environment again. @hazel, I think u can try putting cocoa butter in your body butter. perhaps it really does help in retaining the form in hot weather. but i will suggest the...

I am going to do my new batch soon~~~ Happy Gal today..

As mention, the pix of my body is uploaded. The first pix is taken on the first day. The 2nd is taken today. surprisingly, the butter harden though in my humid n hot bedroom. the butter still melt at my finger tip but remain creamy in container. So i guess can consider it as successful. The...