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Thanks for your replies DeeAnna. I do remember the shave soap being a paste that wouldn't be pourable. So from what you're saying you wouldn't supercream if you want that kind of texture. So is there a magic number for the proportion of stearic to oleic to keep it from separating? I haven't...

Useful information. Sorry if my questions were confusing, I guess I wasn't being clear enough in what my goals were. I'm interested in making shaving soap, yes, but I was kind of thinking a cream soap might make a nice hand soap at the sink, so I thought I'd try to make a more "general use"...

Thanks everyone for your replies. OK, so some clarifications: I want to learn to make cream soap, so I can eventually make a shave soap, which is a type of cream soap. If that makes sense. My original point was that I wanted to try to make it without or with a low amount of stearic acid. That...

Wow, that looks to be the master thread on shaving soap! I started reading it but I figure I'll peruse it on and off over the course of a few days since there's so much there. For my initial experiment I was just going to try my regular base oils in their original proportions. To do a shaving...

Being as I like to experiment, I came up with an idea. I found this recipe for lotion bars: https://www.mommypotamus.com/lotion-bar-recipe/ My thought is to scale the recipe back some and add about an ounce of magnesium hydroxide powder to turn this into deodorant. I've been spraying my...

Hello all. I'm Nate. I'm an electrical engineer in the Tulsa area. I started making cold-process soap about three weeks ago. I've already tried some of my creations (which if you do the math and hold fast to a cure time of at least 4 weeks, you can see that I'm already breaking the rules) but...

Hello all, I'm new to the forum. I started making soap about 3 weeks ago and done a few batches of hard soap. I'm impatient and didn't exactly wait long enough for curing before trying some of my creations, but aside from the bars not being as hard as they could be I've been pretty happy with...