Search results

Here in Sri Lanka also It's not possible to find slow cookers and even if we find it'd be considerable investment. I use to make CPLS for household use. what I'm going to describe is the process I've mastered over couple of batches of CPLS. what I've used to do is dissolve KOH in distilled...

I'm trying to use the soap calculator to resize the recipe to fit to my molds values, which has a total volume of 2390ml (25*7.5*6.5)+(20*6.5*7.5)+(22/7*6.6*9.4). However when I fed this detail to the soap calculator it is indicating a mold capacity of 1661 grams. according to the calculator...

I live in a tropical country, The temperatures are in the range of 25- 30C. When I thickened the diluted CPLS with salt to honey thick, it felt very nice to use. However, when I tried to leave a sample in my office lunch room, the soap turned partially solid due to the Air condition is in use...

I've found a place to purchase chemicals, including lye. However I'm finding it difficult to purchase oils and the other additives. Mica's colorants not available at all. So far i'm working on small scale, my products are for own use and friends and family giveaways. If possible share the...

What's the dosage you use,

I think I read exact same thread post while looking for solutions. The place where I live, it is impossible to get supplies from soap suppliers, All the oils are store bought. I had DOS once in a soap which contained sunflower oil. I stopped using it after listing to some advise on the forum...

When I was searching the internet for possible solutions for DOS and how commercial soaps avoid getting any DOS, came across a PDF by Kevin M. Dunn of CavemanChemistry.com , which details testing on different additives to prevent developing DOS in controlled environment. I think Mr.Kevin is the...

Exactly that what I'm thinking of doing.

Why I thought this way is that by doing this we can avoid exposing the soap to air for lengthy period. The other method I thought was putting the soap bars in a air cooler and running the air overnight.. I'll try both of these methods any update which one works well.

have you posted anywhere the steps you've taken to create those nice patterns. I would like to learn from you

I made a small batch of CP soap in December with Rose fragrance oil. The soap smelled so good initially. However during the 4 weeks curing period, the fragrance slowly became very mild and almost disappeared. Through out the curing period I kept the soaps in pizza boxes including good amount of...

This soap is awesome..

I also had bad experience with making 20:80 NaOH : KOH soap. although it got diluted and became transparent, at 1:3 dilution, using the salt to thicken the soap became very challenging. ultimately I had to give up thickening and use the diluted soap while it was watery.

Thanks @IrishLass for the advise. I make soap in small quantities. when I made CPLS base this weekend, I resized the batched to use up the entire pack of KOH (250g), so I didn't have to manually handle the lye too much. This was a suggestion I had when the SMFSoapCalc was built. unfortunately...

I've noticed that most of the commercially sold soap bars are molded into different shapes which will have minimal area touching the surface, thereby preventing experiences like I had. (photo source) It got me into thinking of any possible ways that can be used by soap makers like us...

I've given most of the bars away to friends and family soon after 4 weeks time. I tried zap test and it felt ok. that's the reason I distributed it and started to use one bar. Any reason to suggest longer curing time,

I made it on 9th December, and used after about 45 days.

These are the bars I'm referring to. I've used a pizza box as the mold. the bar I mentioned at the beginning was kept on a flat surface after use (not on a soap case) and it finally got really sticked with the surface and not being able to remove at all. Each bar was about 8cm X 5cm X 3cm...

I started test using a soap bar I made recently. Since the soap was poured on a flat surface and cut into rectangles, all the sides of the soap are very flat. it is causing the soap to get sticked to the soap case very firmly. Since I'm using the soap once a day it becomes little difficult to...

I recently had an experience that the NaOH purchased about a month ago gained approx 6% weight and the KOH partly turned into watery substance. all these happened while I've kept it well closed container. Since I was working on a bar soap I adjusted the NaOH purity and everything went well. With...