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Great, thanks.....so can I use this method for other milk soaps too?

Zany what temperature do you warm your oils to.... when you're adding the lye straight from the fridge ?

I meant to include this quote too :p :thumbs:

Thank you Zany 🙏

Lol...:thumbs:

Thanks DeeAnna for this information too....my first bottle of LGP has just arrived in the post !!

This discussion has been SO interesting....for she who's yet to make her first batch of LS :nodding: Thank you....

So excited to report that my crumbled gardener's soap successfully re-batched ! I had been looking at it everyday as it was getting drier and more crummy looking... literally, so it was dump it or try and re-batch. I found Zany's method and it seemed pretty straight forward, so I followed it...

Yes !! I made this one about 10 days ago....looking good, can't wait to try it ! We've been picking olives all weekend (400+ kilos = 50 litres of oil)... helping a friend.... and she's just drop in a sample bottle. Normally I'd be excited for culinary reasons.... now I can't wait to make more of...

Thanks Zany....will try the cornmeal. I use annatto just for the orange colour because I'm using the orange peel and orange eo. A friend just dropped in a heap of limes...so next batch will probably have lime rind....so I'll be resarching a natural lemon or lime colour !

Yes.... don't know where I went wrong there. Thought I'd followed all the rules....but maybe when I do Take 3 it will work. 🤞

Thanks so much for talking the time to have a good look at my recipe Zany...I really appreciate that :) I've been a bit distracted lately so haven't yet got around to giving this gardener's soap another go, but when I do I'll certainly take on board everything you've said. I always used to be...

Sorry typo...20% tallow....:thumbs:

Ummm, I just don't know....the first one I cut at 8 hours, the second at 18 and they both did exactly the same thing and were similar hardness ? Thanks for reminder about tubes.... I used to use them a lot, but cardboard not PVC. We can't buy freezer paper in the supermarket in Australia...

Thanks Kiwi Moose and everyone...I've got a lot to learn... hopefully will get there :) Take 3 tomorrow 🤞... and I'll reduce the orange & pumice by 50%. Perhaps I should back off on the hard oils too...the first one I did was 65%.... yesterdays was 75%.

Finally....the last photo is the first one that I was talking about, made on 29/4.

Yes, you're probably right KiwiMoose :) I will try and get some photos up though....later, just got a few jobs to do first....

2 Tbs of each, which I guess is quite a bit for 500g, and poured at a medium trace. I was pleased with their distribution through the soap when I cut though...it was very even, so I don't think that's the problem... but thanks.

I'd call it soft crumbly. I was using a commercial corrugated cutter which I ran under the hot tap between cuts. The first part of the cut was like going through firm butter...and if I held the bar I was cutting hard against the cutter, through to the finish of the cut, it was a bit better, but...

Can anyone suggest why my new gardener's bar might crumble when I cut it ? A bit of background - the first one I made on 29/4 with my formulation looks great...but haven't tried yet. Second one - using pumice & borax and very old and dodgy "palm"oil (Frymasta)... looked okay until I cut it when...