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It won't weigh less just because it's whipped, so you can weigh your ingredients, and use those numbers to figure out if the oil is in, without having to make another batch. (Keep notes on the weight of the ingredients, it can be really useful to have a ballpark idea of what the weights are...

It's a topic that comes up on this forum oooooh, about......every two weeks. There's only two real outcomes: ignore the whole thing, because they usually don't want to hear about their poor decision, or rant about it with other soapers who want to rant about it, although you will not likely...

yeah, it's odd. That's why I would want to know...even if it's not bacteria, if something has changed, this would be one possible outcome (reactions where there weren't any before). These can be super frustrating things to track down (I've had similar mysteries in the lab where an experiment...

If I were a vendor, I would be grateful to know of possible reactions to my products, even if it turned out to be something that only a few people encountered. It might alert me to problems with a new supplier, or a new formulation or some other change, and I could address the customers'...

ok. You said in your initial post you were rendering tallow from bones, which is NOT where tallow is found, so it seemed like a valid issue to bring up, directly in relation to your recipe, since if you were writing "tallow" and in fact *using* marrow you might have run into problems with your...

Thank you, kharmon320 this is exactly, precisely WHY I was asking. If the two different fats have different SAP values, it could affect the recipe, since marrow is NOT tallow, and I wanted to be sure that although you said you were rendering tallow from bones, you understood it was actually...

I can't get my post to work :(, but I was trying to post a comparison of tallow fatty acids to marrow fatty acids - they differ but I don't know if it is enough to make much difference to the outcome or the SAP. I have to leave for a while, so I have to quit trying. Google brought up several...

My question came up precisely because she said she was rendering tallow from bones, Susie. Please don't pick a fight.

Is there a difference between marrow and tallow? I had always thought marrow would be what came from bones, and tallow was hard fat from suet (the fat around kidneys,etc)

yes, a longer cure works well.. I just found a small bit of high CO soap that was tucked away in a travel bag for a long time and it's hard as rock, but lathers brilliantly. High CO also (I think) has high glycerin, which means it is a bit melty.

dabble or dapple? They're very pretty bars!

I second Sinful7's comment! NO rebatch if those gaps are just soaping disaster byproduct, and not anything unhappier than that....they're lovely!

Tincture of Time. Lots of cleaners work best if they sit for a while. If you ARE going to use Easy Off, bag the racks and let them sit in a warm place (in the sun?) Making soap is a long haul to the finish line to clean oven racks, and I agree that just using a dilute lye solution (with all...

I can't take credit for the list, that's the ingredients Jagermeister reveals - it's worth a try to see how much of the scent survives soaping. It sounds like it would be a nice deep fragrance for a soap.

CaraBou thanks for mentioning diluting. The thought crossed my mind as I typed last night, but didn't make it all the way out to the post.

And now we both have. peace-love-and-suds, I hope you find out what's going on, as it must be a bit upsetting to think it could be your product that has caused the problem. I can't see anything specific in your ingredients that immediately looks like it would cause the symptoms they describe.

Which is why I said " I think a good start to an investigation would be a diagnosis and report." And you have no reason to believe the two customers know about each other's reaction, do you? As it's a new thing, from the same batch, it is well worth investigating, especially if any of the...

The original thread is from 2009, so I bet those salts are dried out by now..... ;)

For some reason I find the idea hilarious, but we could just chalk that up to my recent insomnia, and shouldn't take it seriously as a reflection of your idea. it's 70 proof (35% alcohol) http://www.jager.com/en-us/search/jaegermeister-ingredients/ <-only mentions a few of the reputed 56...