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I suppose, as most have pointed out, it's your sodium hydroxide then... 🤔

I also noticed that a large portion of your oils is coconut oil. You also have palm oil in there. Maybe you don't need the sodium lactate since your soap will be hard anyway due to the hard oils in your recipe... You might also want to hold back on your fragrance for a while, that might be...

When I first used sodium lactate, I thought that it was culprit for an almost failed batch. It turned out that I hadn't blended enough because I was in a rush to pour my batter in the mold since it had accelerated due to a fragrance and also because I had used oils and butters that were fast...

I cut the glycerin loaf today and it was slightly soft, easy to cut unlike other melt and pour bases which are firmer. It isn't soft such that it'll bend when you lift it. It's as soft as a cold process soap loaf. Is it always like that when it's newly made? But my guess is that it is softer...

I tried the platform once for a recipe that I was planning to use. I like that there's a tab for additives that provides usage rate recommendations and the chart that shows up at the right hand side of the screen to show properties that the final bar may have if the recipe is followed. My...

Hi everyone! I made my first high-temperature hot process glycerin soap today... and I made a really huge mistake 😭😭😭 My recipe: 142g coconut oil 40g olive oil 80g stearic acid (went a bit overboard by 4g) 210g propylene glycol 44g vegetable glycerin (but overpoured +21g) 42g NaOH 80g dH20 120g...

Mabuhay❣️ Thanks so much❣️ Thank you, IrishLass❣️ Thanks❣️ Thank you, I'm enjoying it a lot❣️ Happy soaping as well :) Hi 👋 Thanks ❣️

Thank you! I would love to ❤️ I'll upload them and share soon!

I appreciate your reply 🥰. I soap at room temperatures and for me that's about 25-30 degrees here in my country. For now it's somewhere between 25-27 and it'll get hotter in March. I use my shop's storeroom to soap since I have an exhaust fan there and a sink nearby. I leave my soap molds there...

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Hello everyone, I'm Hana from the Philippines. I'm a working single mom making soaps to get relief from stress. I feel like when I make soaps, I can just cut, clean, and wash away all the burdens that weigh us down everyday. I started watching Elly's Everyday Soapmaking (I think that's her...

This is interesting! I'm one of those who assumes that 😇 I'm a novice soap maker, having started only late last year. I started with melt and pour but then became fascinated with cold process designs and ingredients posted by soap makers in socials. I have weepy spots in my freshly cut tomato...

I think that's what happened to my bars -- the lye crystals and the pockets. Will rebatching fix the bars? Thank you!

I have the same issue with my soaps. I just started making soaps late last year and find it therapeutic. Like all the stress that can overwhelm me in a day just disappears when I make soap. The first batch I made seemed fine. I used one and it was fine until I've used up half of the bar where I...