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That's a lot of soap for rebatch. I've only rebatched once and it was due to over heating ugly soap that smelled really good. That said I would not attempt all three of the 81 ounces loaves at once. Just 1 loaf per time. I'd use extra water since you are pretty much melting it down and going...

Why not use a lye calc to resize? Seems you have 32% extra oils so you would need to rebatch and add the extra lye.

You mean like this? https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2004973 ETA: 60°c is 140°f

It really is quite contagious and I have read that in warm temperature it can live on a surface for days. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8094933/How-one-man-spread-coronavirus-NINE-people-bus.html

They said "social media distancing" not sure we can get people sick with the virus on FB. xD

If you are using 99.9% and want 70% , 99.9 is close enough to 100 to say use 70% of your end product as alcohol.

I hadn't meant to put that, I think it was stuck in the reply box even though I thought I had taken it out and when I replied to someone else it was still there.

You can distill your own water at home using a pot a rack a bowl and the pot lid. Many dutch ovens have a basting lid, if you don't have one of them you can turn the pot lid upside down so the evaporated water can drip down into the bowl.

Does the salt need to be without iodine?

I work in healthcare and I know it seems like something obvious but many women don't know or they age and forget. So I thought I would mention.

80% of avoiding UTI is knowing which way to wipe; front to back.

I use NOW essential oils for soap. I saw they have that and aura cacia. As long as they are pure essential oil you can use them.

I love the spirulina. What is the dark blue upper right corner?

Yes but I think that will be months of curing making it not worthwhile. The lady who did the video said "I thought these had cured long enough but I was wrong."

I saw a YT video where someone did it and had to rebatch because the cp continues to shrink in the M&P leaving gaps.

Just watched this on YT

They look like feathers to me, very pretty.

NS has the FO @ 6% use rate. I always like to try just a bit under to see how it goes.

The recipe I use is very slow trace. I don't have a thermometer but I can say oils were about room temps and lye was very warm to the touch on the side of the plastic pitcher. I didn't notice any acceleration, I used the stick blender to try to thicken up the bottom base color as I thought it...

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