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My "bounty". The smoother foreground ones are original batch. The speckly ones are the re-batch. That's my quicky mold in the background, made in a few minutes from an old scrap of 3/4 melamine. It comes apart easily with a few screws, has sliding adjustable end inside and a "top" to press...

Jaccart789, there actually is superfat, it's the 5% grape seed oil I added at trace. I did it that way because I wanted to use it to puree the basil. The only thing I got our of the basil is color, no hint of its lovely scent. Shunt, I used to have oily skin, never dry. Now that I'm older it...

Damn, I just lost my whole post! This time I'll compose offline. After showering with my sample bar, pressed together crumbs of original batch, I can say that it works. The bubbles and foam were not spectacular, but decent and lasted quite a long time on my wash cloth. Quite pleasant, but...

I used 0% superfat in the calculator because of the grapeseed oil I was adding near the end. I'm being careful with the microwave, but I think I've exhausted my curiosity about that method. It seems to heat only the edges, and you can't stir without shutting it off. I decided to reprocess...

heating Well, I'm new at this, so I've done some reading. Some people talk about keeping the mold warm to aid curing ie. wrapping in blankets, etc. I thought the Hold in the microwave would do a good job of that. As for heating the bar, it was an (unsuccessful) effort to smooth the rough...

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Hi, I'm a newbie. Last night I made my first soap: Olive oil 40% Coconut oil 30% Lard 30% Superfat set to 0 Fragrance 5% Grape seed oil with fresh basil pureed in added at first trace. The lard ingredient came about because with the oils I had, using the soapcalc calculator the properties...