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ok thanks! you did see the picture I posted of it though right?? Did you scroll all the way down to the pic? Is it not showing? I'm just asking because Susie, you said "without a pic to verify" and navigator9, the outer rind is white and the inner is pink, so it's not darker on the outside...

So, I made a soap using a high amount of cocoa butter, (and as some of you know) I am experimenting to see how it behaves as a sub for palm and animal fats. I ended up with this thin ring around the rim. I put it in a cube mold and all 6 surfaced had a solid cream color. But when I cut into it...

Hm, "collodial oatmeal" is something I've only heard of but not ever really seen or dealt with. I'll check that out. I was thinking to soak the oats in water first before adding at trace, but was afraid that would cause some kind of rotting since the water in the oat will not be able to...

No worries! And bombard, I shall! Save

Haha! you didn't poo poo on anything! And yes, i agree that I just have to find what I like myself since everyone has different needs and preferences. The last batch I made had 50% olive oil so I'm looking forward to trying that out once it's cured. Everyone says to cure longer for olive...

Haha! I am no purist. I buy plastic water bottles by the crate and don't compost and I drive a car... alone everyday! Maybe I should get rid of that "Los Angeles" next to my name. ha! Actually I lived in San Francisco for 10 years before LA! oh nooo talk about "purists"!! The thing is I'll take...

I know that many in the forum here don't like coconut oil over 15%, but I've found this recipe on the Lovin' Soap blog to be quite nice. The small samples I've given my friends got positive feedback as well. It's palm and lard free...

Haha! yes, you're absolutely right! I know the types you are talking about, and like I said before that kinda thing can just be so annoying and exhausting to deal with, which is why I was really wanting to avoid the subject, but i just couldn't not ask to be sure about cocoa butter. And I...

Wow! What an incredibly useful resource! I'd love to do that myself, making single oil soaps like that to really learn their properties.

Wow even pyrex. I had no idea. I'm so glad you all caught that in my thread! "Soap snobbery"! That's so funny! But totally understandable. I'm certainly not trying to tell anyone what to use or not or anything! I actually don't like to even mention it, and keep being vegetarian to myself as much...

Oh duh! I totally knew that! I had the numbers pictured in my head with 1 on top (high) and 14 on the bottom (low). Gosh, I shouldn't do this type of thing so late at night when my brains not working right! I'll switch to plastic for it all anyway! Thanks again!

Oh, ok. I just read somewhere to slow down trace to up your soft compared to hard. But yes, i'll just work with 50/50 for now. I need to take a few steps back! Save

Thank you so much for answering all my questions so carefully! I really appreciate it. I'm going to start with an olive, coconut, cocoa butter recipe as you suggested. And tweak proportions gradually from there. I'm sorry to ask again about the glass containers, but did you really mean to say...

Thank you for this. I was beginning to feel like I needed to be apologetic for asking about palm free veggie soaps. I get that no one wants to be preached at and self righteousness can be annoying as hell. But I had no other way of getting around it! It was after my 3rd batch of soap, my 2nd...

Thank you for your reply! I had never even heard of "soy wax"! And no, I have no problem using soy. I'm not sure why you thought I would? I just happen to be vegetarian so didn't want to deal with animal fats. And I just heard a lot of stuff about palm oil with the environment and habitats of...

vegan and palm-free?? Thank you so much for your reply! That is exactly the advise I was looking for. Except, I hate to ask this, but is there any way you could suggest a sub for the lard and palm oil? I've been told by another experienced soaper on this forum that making a high quality vegan...

Yes, absolutely. I took on more than I can handle! I left the soap alone for about a week and it did "absorb back" that liquid somehow and it completely disappeared leaving a kind of ashy residue. Is that the ash I've heard of that can be avoided by spraying alcohol on it? I did the tongue test...

UGHHH! What a bummer!! I'm quite sure I need to throw it out. I made another batch using the recipe I suggested above. here it is exactly: olive 50% 250g avocado 15% 75g rice bran 15% 75g castor 3% 15g coconut 17% 85g water 123.17g lye conc 35% 66.32g super fat 7% fragrance 15g 500g oil...

Thank you for your reply! It is so true what you said about being an excited newbie and wanting to try all these new techniques and ingredients all at once! I definitely am guilty of that! On my next batch I'm going to focus just on getting a slow trace so I can do a simple swirl with 2 colors...

*Thank you for all this information! From all the reading I've done about trace, I never found anything about coconut oil being a fast trace oil. The 4 batches I've done so far all had mostly coconut oil and all 4 had quick trace, so that definitely backs up my experience! I see that you...