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My sole interest is in bar soap. for family gifts, it just seems more "considered". Soap enthusiast may not judge, but they ain't met my family. "nutritionally healthy grocery store "???!?! I'm using crap I have lying around in my shed! But I think I see what you're saying.

You know, I wondered about this. The dissolving is exothermic and the heat probably allows more Hydroixide to dissolve. By the time I farted around stirring in mica, little streamers of white were starting to form on the lye, so my guess is it was coming out of saturation. Yeah, did that, and...

Gotta be honest, this smells like soap. Already. You know what they say? "If it tastes like soap and smells like soap, it probably is soap." ...but it stings the tongue, so I won't be tasting large chunks of it any time soon.

OKay. Sucked up everything you guys said. Still trying to draw only on what I have lying around in the shed. New "tight-arse beginner's recipe." 100g olive oil 100g sunflower oil 100g (milk) butter 5g beeswax 123g NaOH 80ml water A new set of scales which go to the nearest 1g. This one, I...

I was unenlightened. But now that I Googled "whats wrong with karen" (no offence). It's got o be the antivax gig. Well, I went down an internet black hole of names. I don't know if it's UK specific, but I now feel for everyone called Kevin, too. In fact, there's loads of names with stigma...

It is. What the hell else am I going to do with a kilo of Sodium Hydroxide? I don't have that many drains to clean.

Your Jedi mind tricks will not work on me.

It would seem so!

OKay, then, 60g of water. All my other measurements are in g and were weighed, but as you say 60g of water will barely touch the bottom of a dumptruck. Even if it's on the moon. ;-) The Hydroxide solution was still warm from dissolving in the water, but the oil was room temp (although last...

Like I need ANOTHER addiction!

I've never been happy with my wine, beer or cider. "Bathtub" is more about flavoured vodka! If juniper is the predominant flavour, in my book, it's gin!

D'oh! There is is!

25g dissolved in 60g water. TWO dp? Oh oh. There's a problem. My scale is to the nearest FIVE g!! Might explain why it's still gel (with a thin layer of oil on top) after 12 hours... I was thinking about this. Two decimal places of grams? I.e. tens of milligrams? It needs to be THAT accurate...

Not wanting to sacrifice too much time, or material, I've dived straight in. The only things I know about cold process soapmaking: - add the lye to the water as it is massively exothermic - you need oil and lye in very precise proportions I looked at some commonly used oils and settled on a...

It worries me that I can't see what sounds like a nice avatar for you. I see an "I" in a pink square. Also, having a long established avatar (a football with a dagger through it), I can't see where to SET my avatar! (Maybe I'm too new!)

Hi from Midlands, UK. Totally new to soap making. I looked around me one afternoon and realised that drawing in from other hobbies such as colourants and moulds for making turned pen blanks, essences and herbs for bathtub gin, I have almost everything around me to make some soap! I bought some...