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I think it's stainless steel, but now I'm not so sure... maybe I should buy a wooden one (do they even exist??) to be on the safe side. Or I suppose it'd be ok just to sit the soaps on cardboard or kitchen roll, lining the drawer? I've enough problems with these soaps as it is, don't want DoS as...

Thank you! I think I need to buy some alcohol otherwise I'm going to keep getting ash. Gin preferably 🍸😁

Ahhh, I did just wonder now whether those 2 oils could have been added AFTER trace, like you would with the essential oils? But then, if that was so, I think the soap would be very oily? Do people even add extra oils after mixing and getting trace?

Hi, Thank you for your advice and linking the calculator. For Batch 2, I used a pre-blend that I bought to use in my diffuser - I'm not going to use this soap, I just wanted to see what it would smell like if I put it in soap (with a view to doing my own blend of similar eo's if I liked it)...

Hi Lily Jo, I have a question if you don't mind please? I started to make CP soap just very recently so am really just starting out, and I started because I don't want to go back to shower gels and that kind of thing - I bought a 'proper' CP soap about 3 years ago in Truro, and have been...

Hi soapy community! I wonder if anyone can shed any light on some issues with my soaps please? Batch 1, photo 1 - this soap seems fine, pomace OO, CO, PO, unscented - it cut fine and looks nice Batch 2, photo 2 - this was made to exactly the same base recipe as Batch 1, but with the addition...

Thank you! I'm just trying to get a handle on straightforward cp soaps right now, it's more problematic than I thought (I naively thought I could just melt, mix, and cure 😂 ) The Brambleberry kits sound good, I'll have a look if they can be shipped to the UK... maybe I'll get some M&P too...

Thank you! I can add oils to a maximum of 3% dilution (UK/EU), would you blend to the full 3% with these oils, or dilute further? I think I should buy a bigger quantity of EOs so I can play around... I've only got a 10ml bottle each of the rose geranium and the patchouli, so don't want to mess...

Thanks for replying... I've made 6 batches of cp so far in total, some successful, a couple not. I'm not planning on doing any hp soap though... I don't mix with a stick blender, I do it by hand with a whisk and I'm not adding any colours or doing swirls, just plain soap - will that make a...

Hi, I'd like to try to make a cp batch with rose geranium and patchouli - does anyone have any advice regarding this type of blend (such as, does it need anything to else to fix the scents, or do the two work together really well as a duo...) I'm new to soapmaking and trying to learn from the...

Hi, I'm same as you, just starting out and in the UK... I've done a couple of workshops, all good, the CP soaps turned out fine. I've just made my 4th batch of solo CP soap, and this is where it gets interesting...the first 2 seem ok and are curing well, the 3rd was a disaster, and this 4th...

Ah, thank you! I see that '38% water as % of oils' is the default setting in soapcalc, this makes sense now! 😊

Hi DeeAnna, Sorry for the intrusion, still learning... What does "full" water mean please, what would the lye concentration be for that? Thank you 😊

Hi there, I'm still fairly new to CP soapmaking and think this is a great e experiment! Can I ask though, when you say 'lye discount' (eg 5%, 10%, 15%), is this the superfat amount? Thank you 😊

Thank you! 😊

It was a few little flecks sort of floating mostly near the surface... What is lye lint? 😊

Hi there! I'm still new to CP soapmaking, and today I noticed that in the lye solution, although the solution was clear, there were a few (not many at all) teeny tiny bits, like tiny dots, of what looked like undissolved lye... When I poured the solution into the oils, I poured it through a tea...

Thanks Zany 🤗

So, I posted yesterday that I had just made my very first solo batch... I was going to leave it in the mould for 48 hours, but after some great advice from a couple of SMF members, I decided to unmould after 24... it's a plain, unscented bar, partly to test the process making soap by myself and...

Pomace Olive Oil (poo lol) 😉