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Tangerine EO seems to stick so much better, its smell of tangerine rather than orange but it is citrus. Cedarwood I think is a wonderful aroma and does work well with citrus.

I use white sugar which seems to work fine in my HP I avoid honey because I HP not sure of the chemistry regarding adding before saponification or adding after whether it does the same thing or not? I have bottle of Sorbitol but haven't tried it.........yet!

It would be better to lower your CO as already said it does dissolve faster and it is also more drying, a recommendation is no more that 20%. You can use waxes to harden, Bees wax at no more than 2% , more will risk some loss of lather. Stearic acid or stearic wax will also harden and make a...

Yes ditto again, I first read this method on about.com a very long time ago and then found the dish thread of experiences. if I remember correctly the Doctor reply like an all OO LS which he said came out very thick and mild.

I did superheat at 5% by the way but still it doesn't feel amazing!

Your likening to castile soap was a good example there is a similarity but without the slime, a thin milky lather which does not feel luxurient. I really do not like the waxy rinse off feel a sort of grippy feeling on the skin but I can't say that my skin feels dryer or itchy but it doesn't feel...

Thank you Rune for that experiment, it looks like we have some similar results here. My batter was also very fluid but I did use a hight water % as it was stove top HP and a very small size batch, plus the SL also added to the fluidity but then my HP is usually very fluid anyhow. I find it...

At last an update on my rapeseed wax soap as its now over 4 weeks cure and I am able to use it. Recipe had 27% RSW the rest made up of OO and butters and 18% CO. I used duel lye using 5% NaOH plus SL. As said previously it took forever and a day to trace, this was a tiny batch and stove top HP...

That is most interesting, funny when you say slimy as I noticed a lot of slimy feeling when washing up the soap pot, nothing I have ever had before with any soap oils or waxes, it wasn’t the Castile sort either so will wait to see if it’s the same in the cured bars. Am indeed enjoying the chill out!

Yes am chilling out! What does seem to be coming out of this is that the RSW is probably not going to be a replacement for SW and this does sadden me. Marnisoapien do you think that the high SB content dampened the lather somewhat, I find it does tend to in higher amounts.

Thank you that is interesting and looks a little like the lather I got when washing up the pots, I usually get much more abundant lather even at 15% CO so I am thinking that RS was could be a dampener? I used both CB and SB at 10% each I think but don’t have recipe in front of me right now and...

As I said not on washing up the pots etc. But will have to wait until August to test it, hopefully the cure time improve matters but am not overly hopeful really, not sure sure it’s going to be the magic ingredient I was hoping for but I might be wrong so we have to wait!

And lather?

Am hoping there will be huge transformation after cure time and that it will be the go to ingredient! We shall see.

I am out of the U.K. for a month right now but just before leaving I decided to make a tester batch with the rapeseed wax @ 27% . Well when it came to mixing the lye I found that I had hardly any and so had to adjust the recipe to fit the lye as nowhere in the vicinity had any lye at all! I...

Yes I find it mixes much better with the oils also.

I will report back when!

Well thank you and even more interesting especially with your 20% CO. So do you think that the rapeseed wax actually reduces lather in a similar way that bees wax does. I was going to have a go with a really big dollop (% to yet be determined) of the rapeseed wax to see what happened.

Fiona thank you for this it is very interesting indeed. I have not yet got my head around the percentages of the oils you have used so can't comment on what I think about the performance at those levels but its interesting to note that you say the batch with the brine had a better lather yet...

Have you tried green matcha tea? I know it is often used in food and confectionary and gives anything with it a varying shades of green depending on how much, I think only a tiny amount is required to get a green colour.