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You know, that's a good point. I know I smell things differently to other people. The butter recipe just never turned into soap, but i didn't detect anything rancid about it. However, there's something about, for example grapefruit, which just smells like Body odour to me. Actually, now I think...

Yeah, it does look a BIT like cheese.

Hell, no. If you're going to get the big wooden spoon out, my threads are the best place for it! :-)

How about now? Wolves aye we. (I'm not a football fan, but 100% of matches I've ever been at were the Mighty, Mighty Wolves.)

I binned it off as it had too much Hydroxide. I'm not feeling much love for it. Message received! Yaeh. having been to both extremes I put CO in the third batch and it resembles soap. There are so many things to try. This was an experiment to see if I could use stuff I had around me. Now that...

Oh, yeah. I'm only spotting this now. Probably because you got it right. How odd. I'm really very good at words.

Some. I don' have the tidiest shop in the world, but I ain' no foo'.

It's a working workshop. not one of these excessively tidy things where the owner spends more time licking it clean than using it. Yes. I was going to ask about that. It's zappy on all 5 surfaces except the top. The top had air. The rest were suffocated by silicone. Is that he reason?

Back on topic. My workspace: Boom diggidy, no doubt: my hydroxide has dissolved in my water this time. My oil melting process is a bit <insert your own verb here> but it works. ...and the pour was pretty damned good, which made it a hellovalot easier to clean my kit. I think I over-whisked...

Oh, dear God, what have I done?

Well, it's normally for folk who erroneously think they ejected themselves from the list. I mean you're on the Teflon coated list of "Good Guys" which is pretty enviable. I don't want to start a kind of snowball effect nor sound like a psychopath, but you're ALL on some kind of list. :)

Only for water. I have a really good measuring cylinder. Accountants and Engineers are mortal enemies. Outside this forum, obviously!

My house has a laundry. The dishwasher is in the location most folks might have their washing machine. Noted, thanks. Nobody seems to have any love for the-sage lye calculator today! Yes, I'll try a different calculator! I'm not sure where I got a reputation for not understanding that. I'm an...

Not in the slightest bit necessary! If I had my thinking head on I should have realised that there was no way I should dissolve twice the mass of Hydroxide in water! This calculator is definitely upside-down. It gives 100-n% ratios. Also, it was the calculator (subsequently shown to not be...

Yes, it's the leaf juice. Not an oily extract. Crumbs... Min recommended by calculator is 180ml. I'll run with that. I know I can dissolve it. (Accounting for Aloe Water!) I thuoght I was going to get kicked for using too little water...! OKay. That works. Noted. Thank you.

Taking on board as many lessons as I can from an over-soft, under whisked first stab and an seriously over-lyed second batch, I'm still striving for a plain bar soap recipe containing simple stuff which folk have under the kitchen sink. One lesson is that it does no harm to run a recipe by you...

Well ventilated shed and a respirator! I wasn't working hard on saturating it: it's what the calculator recommended when I requests a 33% solution. I firmly believe the-sage calculator works in % liquid, not % hydroxide! Which is how I ended up with stupid 1:2 instead of 2:1 ! Noted. Where's...

Duly "biffed". There were visible crystals on the surface today. Not putting that anywhere near any living thing.

the-sage.com calculator. I entered the mass of the ingredients: 100g dairy butter 100g olive oil 100g sunflower oil 5g beeswax ...and it came back with 123g NaOH and 76-115ml water. Per earlier advice, I had also set Lye concentration 33%. My first experiment was too runny, so I went with 80ml...

I'm happy that it was sort of soap coloured and sort of soapy! On my way to Tesco just now! (Other supermarkets do exist and may stock soapmaking products. :cool: )