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Ok, going to make soap for the....6th....time...EVORRRRRR: Check out the Sage Leaf w. Tea Tree Oil Soap: Recipe: I am gifting it so cut it after only 12 hours of mold and put a fan on it for another 3 or so. They're pretty decent. Nice and green, who knows if...

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I tried 2:1 this time, it wasn't anything too special, but at least it'll dry a little faster!

From the above site: Lye x 1.0 = 50% (the physical limit for pure lye & pure water, and neither your lye or water are pure!) Lye x 1.15 = 46.5% For “extreme soapers” Lye x 1.2 = 45.45% Lye x 1.25 = 44.44% Lye x 1.3 = 43% Lye x 1.4 = 41.66% Lye x 1.5 = 40% For...

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Right now I have a recipe of 10% almond oil, 60% olive oil, and 30% coconut oil. The water to lye ratio is 2.664 when I choose 38% of oils as water weight. Lowering the ratio to 1.5:1 yields a lot less water required for the same recipe, taking it from 344g to about 200g or so. Are there...

I was also thinking about browning, luckily these soaps are not gifts, we will use them, although it'd be cool of they stayed green which might not be likely. So ill probably stick with the sage leaves, I think it'd be cool to have them in there and there are a lot of sage leaves from the...

So here is the plan: Just olive oil and coconut oil soap Sage leaves from the garden Tea Tree oil Not sure about the oils yet - 75% OO to 25% CO? 1-3% Tea Tree oil (maybe less, I don't have much) Sage leaves - as much as possible Probably powderized in a coffee grinder or very...

Ok, so both cold process and hot process gel in the end. That makes sense. What I'm wondering too is, what you did was prevent gelling, but what is going on chemically there. And does it need a longer cure now that you stopped gel. Anyways nice soap, and thanks

That looks so nice, awesome. I'm confused - can cold process soap gel, at all, after you pour it when it comes to trace? I thought cold process didn't gel because you pour it at trace, but it seems like you put it into the fridge to stop gelling?

Nice, how long have those been curing? I noticed mine have shrunk/changed shape slightly after curing for a few weeks. Yours look amazing!

What is salt in soap supposed to do?

Can anyone explain what is chemically happening when soap "gels"? I thought too that gelling was a sign that the lye in the soap had been fully consumed, but apparently this only happens during the hot process of making soap. In the cold process, apparently gelling does not occur, is...

Tech grade chemicals are less regulated and lack the standards of purity that Food grade chemicals which have to meet the requirements of the FDA's Food Chemical Codex (FCC). Tech grade probably has more impurities (ie, heavy metals like Lead) but it's hard to find out just what impurities...

Cool, thanks for the info. 2oz to 32oz (2lb) = 3.125% of your oils I used 33% neem in my 20oz batch! Needless to say, it smells. I ended up putting 5.1g of patchouli essential oil in there to mask the neem. Right now it's curing. Cutting it up wasn't horrendous, but it definitely...

Any pointers for neem soap based on experience?

Do you have a source for this? I'm not attacking you, but would just like to see one if you have it. I would think that the amount of scraping would depend on a lot of things aside from coffee grain size. Like how long you scrub for, how dense your abrasive is, which skin you use it...

Can you post the recipe?

My first neem run: http://soapmakingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29300