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Very pretty soaps. Love the way the pictures have been taken too. Sent from my iPad using Soap Making

Thanks for the reply savonierre. Just to make sure I understood u correctly. It is fine if I wrap a 1 week soap on muslin cloth. The cloth will absorb all the droplets on soap surface (my guess is those droplets are water And not glycerine of the soap coming on surface-please correct me if I m...

Thanks sososo, isg and judymoody. I will give salt and vitamin e a try. Will also try to get my hands on rosemary oleresin. I thought that while curing nothin can touch the soap surface, otherwise it absorbs the glycerin (which comes on surface of the soap due to sweating). Is that true, or...

Hi everyone. I made a soap with just 3% superfatting, which got DOS in 2 weeks. :( So my question is: To avoid rancidity and DOS in very humid conditions, can a soap be packed in towel or paper or shrink wrap. Will the soap continue to cure in shrink wrap but also not spoil due to oxidation or...

Thanks for the reply Dagmar. I am a new soaper so my questions may sound silly. But for big batches I will need to buy oil, lye etc in bulk from manufacturers (its difficult to find good quality oils here from retail shops :sad: even if i do find its expensive, so i use small quantities before...

Hi Robert, Thanks for the reply. good to know what i made is soap and not mixed oils. :smile:...i read somewhere soap never melts and got worried cuz mine was almost looking like oils again. my soap din look curdled, but became thick and difficult to mix, so i had to scoop it out into mold, and...

Hi sistrum, Thanks for the reply i think it is glycerin dew. to avoid it ( i do stay near sea so its reallyyyyyy humid out here. :think: ) i have wrapped the soaps in small towel and using small pouches of silica gel all around in a show box..lets see if it works.. hoping the soaps are hard...

Hi Daisy- i did use a soapcalc to check the recipe and used lye and water accordingly. I am not sure about sat and unsat values and will pay more attention to these :oops: .. (thanks for this info.) 'Froze'- the first batch i made very quickly became hard in the mixing bowl itself, before i...

hi, i love this forum and finally got around to making my own soap. i faced 3 major challenges: the first batch-when i made it, it froze on me too quick before i could mold it. so i micriwaved it to melt and re-mold. but its melted to a liquid rather than a creamy texture(i read a soap never...