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I made four 160g tubs back in April and am about half way through my first one. I only shave every other day so I reckon I will get about 120 shaves per tub. I am finding I can use less and less though, so I may get more out of it once I settle into a routine.

Remember to allow your fresh batch of shaving soap a good couple of weeks to settle before you use it. Even though it is hot process and is technically "cooked", it will benefit from a rest. It is not a traditional bar of soap so a fortnight will be enough in my opinion. Here is a little more...

That shaving soap thread is a great read. The amounts I settled on in the end were as follows... Stearic 45%, CO76 25%, Beef Tallow 20%, Lanolin 5%, Shea 5% all at 5% SF (reserving the Lanolin and Shea for the SF). 100% KOH at 33% in water. Essentials Oils 3% (Lavender, Rosemary, Mint)...

I remember a scene at the beginning of the Lark and the Wren by Mercedes Lackey (fiction) where the girl gathers the ashes from the tavern in a pit for the Lye Man to come and take away. In return the Inn gets given a certain number of bars of coarse brown soap and a few bars of fine soap once a...

Googling "soap making ash lye" came up with these links... http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/how-to-make-soap-from-ashes-zmaz72jfzfre http://www.countryfarm-lifestyles.com/make-lye.html#.WYg5zieQxjE I vaguely remembered something like it on TV in Tales From the Green...

Earlene - I wonder if there is water added to the fats but not put on the label? That would lower the % of saturated fats per 14g "serving".

I wonder if you could cast your eyes over this recipe for a high Tallow soap for me because it is not behaving as I expected from reading the forum. It seems very much more soluble in my soft water than I had been led to believe. High Tallow, Dual Lye, Cold Process Tallow (beef) : 75% Coconut...

An intriguing idea - I remember doing something like that when I was helping run the junior scouts tuck shop and we stored the extra-strong mints in with the Mars bars and then sold those bars first as "mint" Mars bars. I was only a kid at the time so it was more a novelty than a serious science...

Hello folks - I have a batch of unscented tallow soap coming off my curing shelf at the end of this week that I originally forgot to add the EO and I wondered what was the usual practice for adding essential oils to a cured soap? The soap in question is a small batch (300g of oils) of 75%...

Can you post the exact weights of oils, KOH and water that you used so folks can plug it into SoapCalc/Soapee to see what might need doing to save it.

Mind you, it did take me a few days to wade through the thousand or so posts when I tried to do that. Lee's shaving soap above is a very good starting point and I did appreciate the pictures when I made mine a couple of months ago. I waited a week before using it and I did notice that in that...

There is the great big "My first Shaving Soap" thread by songwind that is an excellent read for an adventure through the recipes of shaving soaps. If you click that link above it will just take you to a recent post I made in that thread about my own first batch for personal use. That batch...

I think it is well worth pretending you did it on purpose. I agree with the "Blood Moon" idea and think there is a definite "Elements" theme to this. The embed looks like it is on fire, especially in the top bar. EDIT : I just showed this to my wife and she immediately said "Bad Moon Rising"...

I can second the fact that Soapee helps with dual lye soaps and I too have just made my first batch of unscented 75% Tallow soap which I am very pleased with. I browsed some of the other Tallow threads and spotted the dual-lye suggestion so I just started with that as my first recipe. Thanks to...

Sulphur powder is used to deal with Black Spot on roses.

When hand-washing dishes, mine seems to be perfectly clean but I do have a "sink and a half" so everything gets a cold water rinse before being put on the draining board. I use the paste from a small bowl onto a sponge rather than mixing up a liquid batch. I do see that the main washing bowl...

Thanks for the ideas. I think I will transfer it to a wide necked jar (something I can get a big spoon into) and keep it as a paste. Then I can use the container I made it in as an improvised soap mould for a batch of high-lard CP soap. I am finding the paste very useful as a washing up and...

When you have made a batch of the CO/KOH paste soap, how do you tend to store your unused soap? Do you let it air dry at all or keep it covered? I have made a small batch (500g total weight) and am loving it so far as a replacement for washing up liquid but since it is soft enough to squash...

Renaldo's Icecreams in Ayr have quite a few ices that colour!

Aha - another squeegee-lover! Your secret is out! I just looked up the fact sheet for the goop (Ungers Liquid) that shipped with my bucket/t-applicator/squeegee window kit and it has the following... Fatty alcohol ethoxylate 1-5% 2-propanol 1-5% Fatty acid amide alkyl betaine 1-5% The rest is...