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I need a bit of clarification. When you say 'wool wash' do you mean something for wool clothes that are dirty from wearing them, or are you talking about preparing raw wool for carding and spinning? (Never know on DIY sites like this.)

I have also never heard of keeping them as pets. Do you handle these things once they're grown, or are they more like fish? How long do they live?

Don't try to run before you even know how to crawl, much less walk. Start with making recipes for about 500g of soap, which is enough for 4 bars. Once you settle on a recipe that you like and are confident in the process, scale up. Thirty bars is easily enough soap for one person for an...

Sunrise, Sunset.

A crock pot on high should be thermostatically controlled to about 250F, so I wouldn't be too worried about it.

That calculates to 0% superfat. Did you add something more back that I didn't see?

Needs more curing time.

Please give the whole recipe in grams/ounces rather than percentages, and include both water and lye amounts.

Did you grow those yourself? They're remarkably intact for commercial hops.

Modern table and pickling salts will have been made by vacuum evaporation, so they are small cubic crystals that are easy on skin.

I have done neither the experiments nor the calculations, but I have tried dissolving from both directions and I can say categorically that NaCl will not dissolve into a solution of NaOH. Not even a single teaspoon for a regular "non-soleseife" batch will dissolve in lye. I believe like...

Most of these prohibitions are more about an overabundance of caution than real potential for harm. What do you think your parents washed you with or your grandparents washed your parents with? Soap. Remember the Ivory soap baby? Also realize that many of the warnings around "lye soap" are...

Won't help the OP in Australia, but for others Harbor Freight (US) and Princess Auto (Canada) usually have IR guns for about ten bucks.

With the exception of a few quibbles, I agree with most of that link. However, you should be aware that the safflower oil described there is NOT high-oleic and the characteristics described do not apply to high -oleic safflower. Since almost all growers (at least in North America) are now...

LOL. I read the title as Thai Coconut SoAp at first.

Most safflower is high oleic, and actually has a larger percentage of oleic than does actual olive oil. I've switched to safflower completely as a replacement for olive. Depending on where you live, the LouAna brand of safflower sold at Walmart is HO and cheaper than the cheapest olive I've...

If you're still perfecting your recipe, you might be better served by waiting a bit. Six months is a long cure time for most anything not high oleic, giving you a few more months to experiment with recipes.

We mean a better balance of lather characteristics. 100% lard is pretty hard to lather and once you get some lather the bubbles are tiny and long-lasting. 100% coconut lathers really well with big, big bubbles that don't hang around long. 100% olive is slimy and slick; people who like it...

Don't over think it. Trust the calculators.

Superfat shouldn't noticeably affect trace unless you have set it unusually high AND you're soaping unusually cold. In that corner case, it might increase the odds of false trace or thicker trace. But that should not be an issue for anything using best practices processes.