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Thank you for your feedback! You're absolutely right. I shouldn't expect results of what I might like using someone elses recipe I didn't even follow exactly. So this shall be another jouney of tweaking and adjusting to get to my hopefully ideal face scrub. I might also try an alternative to...

I made my scrub and it was way too greasy. I couldn't wash it off with water. It was as if I just rubbed coconut oil on my skin and was trying to wash it off. Did i do something horribly wrong? Here's my exact recipe and procedure. Avocado oil 15.5% 23.25g HO Sunflower oil 30% 40g Cocoa...

ah geez. I guess I'll bring down my use of only oatmeal scrubs to just a couple times a month then, or maybe just a wash cloth like my mom said all this time. I'm 38 and I still hate it when she's right!! ;) I do appreciate the informed advise from all of you.... as well as my mother. I'll try...

I just made my soap and it's in a turned off 170 degree oven. I added 5% of castor like you suggested so I had to tweak some of the other oils. I tried to keep the same fatty acid profile so the best I could do was this: soy wax 25% castor 5% coconut 20% avocado 27% HO Sunflower 23% SF 3% lye...

Aww shoot. You're all saying what my mom's been telling me for years! Not to use scrubs! :D Or very weary of them anyway. She's used nothing but cetaphil on her skin since I think she was a teenager herself. She's 76 now and her skin looks amazing. She always tells me just to use a soft warm...

So this is the recipe and procedure I'm going to try. Let me know if you have any thoughts on it. Soywax 28% Coconut 20% HO Sunflower 22% Avocado 30% SF 3% I actually crunched the numbers on soapcalc and 22% HO Sunflower + 30% Avocado came super close to the numbers of when I put in 52%...

Oh wow I had no idea! I just read a bunch of articles on the subject and wish I could say I am shocked. One of those articles said, olive oil is one of the most adulterated foods because of its relatively low production and higher prices compared to other oils. It makes sense that this kind of...

I feel silly that I'm just noticing this now, but I'm pretty horrified to learn that the 2nd ingredient (after water) in my "apricot" scrub I've been using all these years is WALNUT shells!! Then the 4th ingredient is corn meal! The only apricot in there is the 2nd to LAST ingredient that is...

Thanks you for this! and for correcting me with the stearic acid and sodium lactate. It's embarrassing to make dumb mistakes like that especially as a newbie. I did see BTMS as well. I will stick to an E-wax for now and try out your recipe. Do you have any specific oils you recommend? Susan used...

Thank you so so much for your reply! as well as to the other persons' questions! I can't tell you how helpful this is for me. I think I'm literally going to print out your reply for my soap notebook. Just from cutting the bars, I could tell the 46% cocoa butter one is probably not going to turn...

Please correct me if I am wrong on what I think I've learned so far. As I said in my original post my goal is to replace my St. Ives apricot scrub I use for my face, (but I have a feeling curiosity and fascination with other possibilities will derail me before I get there!) After reading from...

Ah i see now. I absolutely know tempering chocolate. Thanks for the clarification! I've never paid attn to temperature after combining the oils with lye. I'll give that a try!

Ahh I finally figured it out! I have to go to swiftcraftymonkey.blogspot.com. Not swiftcraftymonkey.com. Wow, what an amazing amount of info! I'm just getting into soap and this will be another world for me to dive into! As daunting as some of these ingredients sound, I'm definitely going to...

You're not rambling at all! All of this is so very helpful. I seem to be one of the few making veggie palm free bars so this experience your sharing with me is very valuable. I stay away from animal fats and palm, but I don't have an issue with soy with the GMO argument. (Obviously not going to...

you are absolutely right!! The pink is completely gone and turned the same color as the "rind"! Wow what a transformation! Save

That was quite a read! I think I read every sentence 3 or 4 times before I proceeded. But I still feel like I need to read it again a bunch. I think I'm supposed to understand "phase" not to be referring to a increment of time like in the normal definition of the word, but a kind of layer in the...

Wow what a wealth of information. "*******ized castile" haha I would've never thought of that. I thought it had something to do with france. Thank you for sharing this information. And the term castile even went to court! It should though. Its very misleading. I too thought Dr. Broners was...

Oh really? 50% Shea, how did that turn out? If this batch turns out well, I was going to try doing the same recipe but with Shea instead of cocoa. Did you use any tallow/lard or palm? And sure, I'll post the results when I get there!

Oh ok great! Thanks so much! I'd never seen this and was afraid it was some kind of weird separation. I'm really looking forward to trying out this soap. Waiting for curing is the WORST part about soap making! I was told to cure longer for cocoa butter. Do you think 6 weeks would be enough?

oh no. ok, how's this. can you see it now?? soap.jpg