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I've worked with high stearic % on my HP shaving soaps, and I know it likes to seize up quickly, so make sure you are really blending everything well (do you use a stick blender?). I would suggest you increase your water (aka decrease Lye concentration) so it pours smoother after the cook. It...

I recently made two batches of olive oil and tallow soap, one I cooled at room temp and never had any ash, the other I gelled in the oven, and it developed terrible ash all over. BUT I used a steamer to get rid of it, which worked very well (two weeks and no ash has returned). Depending on how...

Well the recipe was a qualified success. I waited a few days after cutting and tested out the malformed end piece, not rock hard, but solid with a tiny bit of give when I squeezed. Good full creamy lather, and quite thirsty too. Though when I left it lathered and came back 15min later, it was a...

Yea the first thing I would look at is your lye, I accidentally made a bar of soap with 60% EVOO, using potassium hydroxide and it was forever soft. recipe is fine, just make sure the liquid levels are accurate and you have an accurate idea of what trace should look like so you don't fall for...

I made a HP shaving soap with tallow, stearic, coconut, avocado and castor. Color is ugly as sin cause I used a tbsp of red clay, which only colored it a tiny bit. But the bergamot EO i used smells great! Just cut open the pringles can and took this shot. I'll have to smooth out the wringles...

Thank you! My original superfat was about 8%, but given the size of the batch (1lb) i did that in part as a safety pillow. This time I am doing two lbs with 5% SF. I am considering adding a sprinkling of some Moroccan red clay I have haha. I was thinking castor was a suitable replacement for...

Yea the Salting out part is interesting, I read about it while researching Aleppo soap, but I'm going to try the process first on something that is less expensive than Laurel Berry Oil.

So I made my first shaving soap a couple weeks ago and turned out useable but had a thin bubbly lather. I did equal parts Stearic, Tallow, and Coconut, with all KOH. In order to make a nicer lather though, and more conditioning, I wanted to try this recipe: 45% Tallow 25% Stearic Acid 15%...