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Thanks @new12soap I will try to find. Thank @bodhi for your suggestion.

@bodhi ~ Actually I am from Singapore (Hope there won't be any special person around to catch me in this forum. O_O). So my weather here is all year round summer with occassional heavy rain... @hazel ~ our govt is very strict and deem alot of items as dangerous. they don't like people to be...

Thank Hazel. I will take note of it. Unfortunately, cosmectic preservatives is a ban item currently here. Even NaOH is never sold in pure form in the shop. I have to kind of 'smuggle' in. So right now all the soaps and lotions and butter are just for personal use.

I have these 2 books when I first learn soaping. "The Everything Soapmaking Book" and "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Natural Soap" These 2 books are pretty easy to understand for beginners. But they are just the beginning. As time goes by, I read more books but still I feel that the...

As what other have said, no damage to your soap. Not to worry. Just that it may take you a longer time to cure the soap in order for the extra water to evaporate off. But do take note, the soap may be too soft to be remove from the mold the very next day. hope that it won't happen to you.

Its my first attempt on making a body butter. So for experimenting purpose, I made a very small batch. Here goes my ingredient: 15gm shea butter, 15gm cocoa butter, 15gm coconut oil, 2gm jojoba oil, 8gm olive oil, 2.5gm honey and 2.5gm glycerin. on top of that, i added 1 drop of vit E oil, 5...

Hihi... Based on a personal experience, you need not really whip alot to get it real soft and easily apply. i use the same recipe for all my lip balm, but for softer texture, i use the milk whisk to whisk the oil before putting into the tin... the whisk oil was too abit soft to stay in tube so i...

Hi Sally, I would love a balm. But I think its better to research on the suitable oil to be use for making eye serum/balm. Reason is the the skin around the eyes are more dedicate. Be careful on the EO you choose too.

i infuse rose , chamomile, lavendar, spearmint n peppermint and alkanet root

I have the idea that the soap should be between pH 8-9. 10 will be abit harsh for skin already.

I agree with Dagmar88 too. So far, I have yet to like soaping with a single oil. Personally I like avocado and macadamia nut oil in my soap recipe currently but majority of the oil will still be Olive oil (upto 30%)

I infuse the chamomile flowers... Not the tea leaves... I suppose when chamomile is infuse into tea leaves, it don't really have the original property that it is originate to be used for. I am not sure. But that is how I feel about the difference about flowers and tea leaves.

I do think that the difference is due to gelling. The temperature is higher on the inside compare to the outside, thus the middle part gel more instead.

i have a little confession~~~ I opt to do the pineapple juice... but I realise that my juice went missing and replace with orange juice instead at trace.. But the soap did not turn out really well. Not sure where I went wrong. But I will try again. with real pineapple juice this time.

For me, I keep the % of palm oil in relation to my coconut oil. if i use 20% of coconut oil, i will use either 20% or 15% of palm oil.

Hi Ann, if you want a more firm soap, coconut oil is a good choice. I use CO, PO and OO for basic soap recipe. However, do take note that if you are using milk, it is better to soap at lower temperature as they heat up the mixture real fast.

That is nice.. You manage to cut it.. When did you cut the soap bar.. I am hoping to make mine soon.. I heard that soap bar harden fast.. so I got myself those individual molds to do.. Still waiting for the shipment..

When I have butter more than 10%, i realise my skin will not be taking it well and so far the soap not performing to expectation. Individual reacts differently to the oils used in the soap. so for me, i won't go beyond 10% for butter. some of the butter like cocoa butter will speed up the...

Highest of butter use 10%. I keep my butter % max to 10%.