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I'd bet that they won't be flying off the shelves. Mine was 20 feet up in the air and they had to get a forklift to get it down - only after being showed the web site saying they actually DID have stock. This was after assuring me that "Those are only available in the fall." Point being, I'd...

Might be enough to entice me to finally buy some ROE...

Best By date on mine is October 2018. I have the luxury of unused fridge space left over from my brewing days, so all the oil gets stored cold and dark. I'm not worried about it.

Wow I haven't soaped with it yet, but it makes a great oil for frying.

Those are great because you usually have everything on hand to make it whenever you get the urge.

Right. No need to rebatch. Just shred it, wet the shreds lightly with a spray bottle and put them into new, unscented soap at up to 1/3 shreds.

Sorry for the semi-hijack, but will activated charcoal mute the vanilla scent? I mean, AC absorbs organic scents almost by definition...

Agreed.

Re: the shea being conditioning thing. I think that is falling into the trap of conflating the characteristics of the oil (butter in this case) with the saponified product in soap. I use butters in vegan soaps to make up for the lack of hard oils like tallow and lard because butters are...

Yep, that's the "before" ingredients method. So the citric acid is almost certainly the precursor to the sodium citrate chelator in the finished soap. Just as the coconut oil becomes sodium cocoate after the reaction is finished, so does the citric acid become sodium citrate. A brief search...

Other way around.... Does the ingredients list say 'coconut oil' or does it say 'sodium cocoate?'

Beyond what DeeAnna says about the citric acid on the label being how they describe the chelator, there is also the fact that the commercial soap process is SO different that it can be sketchy trying to use it to draw conclusions about traditional processes like we use. As for not tolerating...

Looks like HO safflower to me. Assuming the total fat under the glare is 14g, 11/14 is 78.5% oleic - more than olive oil. I have completely replaced olive in my soaping with HO safflower. You can make a pretty darn good all veg bar with 50% of that Crisco, 25% HO safflower, 20% coconut, and...

Ah, screw it. I'm gonna buy it. If nothing else, I'll add it to my prepper food stock. That's 92,000 Calories. :D

No worries. Like I said above, I wasn't as clear as I should have been with that first post.

I should have proof-read that again before posting. It ends up more pointedly directed at Lin and Sun than I intended, and the single phrase towards the end about children doesn't make that clear enough. It's true enough that one of the problems with lye is that it doesn't immediately hurt...

Hmm....... Now I'm rethinking whether to buy this. That's over 10,000 grams of oil or about 60 batches (2+ years at my typical rates) of my 1 kg mold if I simply substitute RBO for the safflower. That's a LONG time to keep 22 lbs of oil around - in the freezer. But the real killer was the...

Re: the stick blender... I suspect you didn't have enough liquid in the bowl to submerge the SB enough to stop it pulling new air down into the bell. Or if you did, you let vortexes form like mini tornados to pull air down. You have to use enough liquid (or a bowl small enough) to cover the...

No offense meant, but you guys have an unreasonable fear of lye. It's not a sci-fi cross of lava and xenomorph saliva. Unless you soak in it for a good while, the worst that's going to happen is a chemical burn not unlike bad sunburn. Mix up a batch of 50/50 lye solution and sacrifice a...

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