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Hi everyone! My name is Caroline and I am a total newbie here. I own a little company of hand dyed yarn, and recently decided that I wanted to develop additional products for wool care, and create a line of natural and neutral pH liquid detergent. I first was looking at soap bar, and have talked...

I found a few recipes that I think could work, but might need some guidance from you guys here: A beard shampoo : I like that there is Jojoba oil in this one and wonder if I could add lanolin in phase A to add more emollient, in which case I'm not sure what to remove to add say 10% lanolin A...

Hi Zany! Yes I've replied in the other thread. I've studied all ingredients in Eucalan but stuck from there as to figure out the next steps

I have seen the polysorbate one, but was referencing another one from thesage: High Lanolin Content Soap — Adventures With The Sage There she explained that afterwards her hands felt slightly waxy and sticky hence wanting to reduce the lanolin content. I like the polysorbate one but I'm...

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Yes that’s what I mentioned above and read as well, most likely less than 20% would keep it as nice for your hands while washing the wool and still add enough lanolin for the wool, especially if using a conditioner leave in afterwards

hi there! I’ve read that thread again and again in the past few weeks for pointers as I myself try to find a recipe to go off of to create my own wool detergent, leave in liquid syndet. I was wondering if you ever found a recipe for this and woudn’t mind sharing? im new to all of it and looking...

i have read on another recipe (I think from the Sage) that she experimented with making a soap bar with 25% and that it left a sticky feeling to her hands, kind of a film, and that it didn’t really feel clean. Could be perfect for wool soap though, but maybe if I put a little less lanolin and...

Amazing story and thank you! I wanted to start by knitting baby clothes initially and quickly realised that it would be a difficult business due to how long making each garment would take and then I’d have to price them quite high, but fell in love with dyeing! And now so obsessed with learning...

Thank you! I had found the same recipe but as you mentioned, due to the stickiness of the lanolin I wanted to create one that would contain less of it, I’m thinking between 15% to 20% after doing more reading however and watching videos about different wool wash and what people prefer, I’m now...

Th Thank you I’ll reply to you over there :)

thank you so much for all this information! So I didn’t reply until now because I had to work on my latest shop update and wanted to read more about everything to understand a bit better. After doing some research, I think for now i will not focus on the soap so much, and will try that later on...

Oh right of course, yes i now understand I'm looking to create two different products! The first one, a cold process wool wash bar that would be used less regularly and when the wool really need washing, for examples dirty socks. I need to now learn what to integrate in this one, a good...

Thank Thank you so much for all your replies, super informative! I’m going back to work but will come back later with better explanation of what I mean and links as I’m sure I’m being very confusing right now! thanks again

Here is a link to the kind of bar I’m looking to create: https://www.undercoverotter.com/products/wool-wash-soap-bar-with-lanolin so something like this that you would rinse, And for the conditioning I’m thinking more of a product similar to Eucalan wool wash and this one would be leave in

Ah! That’s definitely why I’m here then, lots to review! so would you think based on that that it would be easier to create a liquid soap rather than hard bars? i know that bars are doable as their is other retailers in the world doing them, but yes they must have more of a...

Also wondering, what is best to go for in my case: cold or hot process? Still trying to become familiar with the differences of the different process

T Thank you for coming back to me so quick! Already very helpful, based on what you said I would then aim for a wash bar that is more gentle on the wool, and create a conditioning leave in solution on the side. So wash with the bar, rinse, and then add leave in conditioner. this would be...

Hi everyone! I’m totally new here, and to soap making in general. I introduced myself in the introduction thread, but to make it quick, I’ll do it here as well :) My name is Caroline and I’m a French expat living in NZ, I have an hand dyed yarn business and I’m looking to create a line of bar...