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What oils and quantities have you used ? Have you used fragrances or colors ?

Re: Using both KOH and NaOH in soap This should help your search - it's called cream soap or whipped soap. Not to be confused with whipped sodium (only) soap. You could try searching for whipped potassium soap or cream potassium soap. Haven't tried it myself, because it doesn't seem very...

Yes, you should wear gloves, unless you're certain that saponification is complete and soap doesn't zap anymore. Sometimes soap is easier to handle and cut while it is somewhat soft and it hasn't saponified completely. But that also depends on the recipe/method, many soaps will be completely...

I've just used fresh mint leaves for both tea and oil infusion. Both soaps are minty, the oil infusion a bit more.

Generally speaking, I'm thinking that certain herbal substances are water soluble while others are oil soluble. Haven't used chamomile, but these days I'm experimenting with mint, doing both - water and oil infusion. And maybe even a double infusion, if I find the time. Worth considering...

I don't often use those EOs, but read somewhere it helps to bring the soap to trace and add the EO dissolved in the superfat oil, mixed in by hand. Part of the reason these EOs accelerate trace is that they react with the lye. Which means some of the EO goes away and a different substance...

Doesn't seem to me sesame oil has such a strong scent. Almost anything can camouflage it (talking here about cold pressed sesame oil). I have tried this in a bottle, not for soap. Unless you're using that cooking oil made from roasted sesame seeds, which has a very strong flavor. In that...

They don't add plantain skins to soap, but rather they obtain lye from plantain ash. You are aiming for something different. Probably it could go two ways: - smoke them a little, chop them to smallish pieces and add them like a sort of scrub - burn them completely and add them as...

Yes, as soon as the original fragrance is altered in one way or another, it's a sign that something fishy is going on. Of course, the nose isn't as reliable as a lab test. Unless you have a trained dog available.

Some colors fade and I believe sunlight accelerates rancidity. If you must use that room, I would find a way to cover the soap.

The flavor betrays it: rotten tomato with a pinch of dead rat.

The distinction I see between flowers and herbs is that flowers have a more delicate and more fragile scent. I am guessing that you will lose more fragrance by wilting them, but I could be wrong. Really wish there was somebody who has done a comparison. I have made both fresh and dried...

It would be also possible to drain out the excess oil. This may help even if you decide to incorporate it in another batch. Not sure if it's really worth the effort though. Basically you stuff the soap in a pot and heat it on the water bath. When it melts, the oil raises on top, then you put...

4% should be ok, but putting that aside, soap should always be checked. You do zap test with the tongue, once you get it out of the mold.

Unless you are certain you know how spoiled peppermint oil smells like, I wouldn't blame your problem on that. I am thinking it's possible to buffer against temperature changes by storing the bottles inside another container. Preferably something with thick or double walls.

Well, I'm not a technical person, just for some reason I'm more used to "inflammable".

You are aware that inflammable means flammable, right ? Just checking :)

The classic recommendation is the "salad dressing measure", which means that you add water enough to slightly wet your shreds. You can work your way up from there, with adding hot water. A little alcohol (ethanol) can make your soap very pourable, but rebatching with alcohol is a skill...

Seems to me that sodium lactate and beeswax fall into different categories. It's like saying that you replace cocoa butter with sodium lactate. Sodium lactate simply modifies the texture of your existing soap. Beeswax has a saponification value and it becomes part of your soap/superfat...