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I have some Grapefruit Oil. I read with interest your advice on dilution rates for soaps. I read with care the manufacturer's dilution rates for IFRA Class 9A (soaps) dilution (unrestricted). I read with care the manufacturer's dilution rates for IFRA Class 3A,B,C (shaving type products)...

You know the way teenagers develop a certain ... aroma? Even if they wash twice a day, they still have teenager smell? Clearly not everyone can detect it (or there'd surely be a remedy) but I can. Which means others can. Anyway, can anyone recommend a recipe for (or an additive to) a bar soap...

Just those two initially. I've made two batches of 5 bars each already this week and clearly I don't wash enough for them to be useful! I think I should have doubled up on my lavender. I haven't done the grapefruit yet, but think it might have to be even stronger. If I had to pick another one, I...

I would NOT have spotted that. I thought 0.5% was a bit low, but the fact that the units are archaic immetric ones meant it went over my head. I've neve understood why imperial measures use percent. Why not user "per 128th" or something? :) Sorry. it's a sore point at the moment. The UK has...

More mundane than that. I've never made soap before and I want to know how much perfume to add! In fact, I've now made a successful batch and to my own recipe. Now I want to make it smell of something. Lavender or grapefruit, probably. Surely the rate of adding essential oil must be dependant...

Basically, I want to make a 3D printed custom mould Our recipes are necessarily by given mass. Clearly, a mould would be made for a specific end volume. Some of our ingredients dissolve in others, evaporate, have different densities... Is there a quick means to calculate the volume of soap...

For a particular quantity of "other ingredients" in cold process bar soap, how much essential oil should be added? I'm 100% certain it differs on a bunch of both objective and subjective stuff like: what the "other ingredients" are what the essential oil is personal taste ...but what would be...

I'm terribly dry. I'm an acquired taste. Even if I were serious, I have Google. That's why I know how to spell "myxomatosis". ...and "hemorrhoids".

Same with craft gin. I say to people: if you don't like it, you HAVE to tell me, or else I keep making crap! I give you crap for presents, you thrown it away. YOU want crap for presents? People ask me what is my soap made from. I'm an engineer. I say pig fat and drain cleaner. (Of course it's...

Those aren't real words. Homily is what the religious person says on Sunday Morning and myxomatosis is a virus rabbits get.

With a bit of a twiddle with badger hair brush, it makes for a BRILLIANT shave! Oh, I love this. Shave foam which doesn't make me smell like a fairy.

That's a useful point. On reflection, soap manufacture and the results can clearly be bloody dangerous, so I shouldn't really be surprised. Thanks.

Oh to spend just half an hour in YOUR head...

Don't give much of a care for legislation. It's generally created by "people" with lower moral standards than mine. I don't agree with animal testing, so after I test it on my own scrotum, I'll try it on my family. I have no plans for selling it.

What's the best bit of the forum to go to for advice on what to use as colourants? I'm pretty sure I'm OKay with mica powders, but can I use ... food colouring, for example?

IT LATHERS! I MADE SOAP! And it doesn't sting my man-bits, so that's a double-whammy! It makes my skin ... "squeaky clean". Is that a good thing?

Stone me, who winds the film back into the cartridge to use the rest later? (Yes, apart from brewing my own developer, I have "darkroom experience"!

Oh, man. This reminds me of being a teenager. I NEED MY INSTANT FIX! :) It's like taking a photograph and having to wait until you've used teh whole film, then waiting another week for it o get developed. Can you imagine that?

How long should I wait before I wet it and wipe it on skin? (Ooo-errr, sounds really rude. Not the intent.)

A the moment, I'm soo pleased with myself that I made something resembling SOAP! the inter-specialist-olefactory-rivalry is a bonus!