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Let me explain myself... Hello again! First i feel like I need to clarify: The first part of my text where i described my adventure testing ALL the new stuff at once wasn't the case with the coconut soap. My chaos-soap (i call it that) has cured for 8 days and it's still not possible...

Hello again everyone and thank you for helping me out. :wave: I've been soaping alot since the last time i checked in here and i'm back with a whole bunch of new knowledge but also an equal amount of questions... Let's start out here: So, as anyone might be able to figure out there has...

Thank you very much! I'll try that! Just recently bought two purple micas, the lady said that they were both stable in cold process soap. Nope. One immediately turned brown/grey and it reminded me of my manganese-violet-incident. Yup, that's what was in it. The other one turned brown/purple...

Thank you for the advice. Unfortunately that store is located in the US (i live in sweden) and with shipping, tax and customs that purple soap would cost me about $30 (over 100 with priority). :(

Oh dear lord. That's quite an adventure... I cannot build anything. But I'm actually wondering what i'm going to use, because now i'm curing my soap on metal racks - and one turned out to be aluminum. This wasn't one of my brightest ideas. Here I go with some questions again! I just...

I've bought ultramarine pink + violet + blue, black iron oxide, green chromium oxide, manganese violet and activated charchoal. I'd like to get a really black soap and one that's a dark (yet bright) purple. I've however realized that i should let my purple dreams go. "Accidentally"...

Thank you very much! This explains why it's been so hard unmolding my soaps... I've found pure NaOH which i'm going to try out today. My soapy adventures hasn't even started yet!! Although my kitchen is getting smaller. There's about 5kg of soap in my kitchen... I had to get rid of some...

How much oxide is safe to use in CP before it starts staining? Can't seem to find any answers to this question - it only says that one should not use too much. I separated out a bit of cold process batter and tried to use a bit of color (pink ultramarine and black iron oxide), but when I...

Hello again! Here's the pictures. The brown one is my disgusting rebatch and the other picture is the original one. (I can't believe how hard it is to cut soap, they just get smaller and smaller)

I decided to throw it out anyway, it didn't smell very good. I'm not quite sure, it was kind of an improvise. But it did figure out why the paprika did not color my soap. I bought it and thought that it was nice and powdery already - i did not process it further with a mortar and pestle...

Thank you for your advice! I'll start over from scratch tomorrow. I'm looking for a good beginner's recipe right now. I managed to get ahold of some palm oil (there's one supplier in my country, impossible) so yes! I'm having a good feeling about this!

Thank you for replying! Oh. That's too bad. Could i save the rebatch for personal use or is it unsafe? The paprika blobs might sting if it's unsolved? The other portion - the original CP that's still curing is not looking too well. I'm not really sure what it is supposed to look like...

Thank you for replying! Unfortunately i've only found 3 suppliers of M&P soap in my country and they all sell the same brands. It's really, really expensive too! It's actually cheaper to buy it from the UK and pay £14 shipping fee... Oh. Thanks for the advice. That never crossed my mind. I...

Hello! Thank you for replying. I know this... improvising is kind of a problem. I tend to get bored when i'm just standing there, so i get adventurous. So, should i just throw it out? Both the cp and the rebatch? Could it be saved? I'm using a stick blender, i tried doing just that. In the CP...

Hello! I'm new to soap making (it's so much fun!) and i could really use some help. I've tried googling and searching around here, but i can't find any good answers. This might be because english isn't my first language - i apologize in advance if my grammar is messed up. :) Anyway! So! I've...