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Can this be used in cold process soap? It does have alcohol in it....Has anyone tried it?

Can this be used in cold process? It has no alcohol in it. Has anyone here used it?

So add citric acid to water and dissolve before adding lye. Use 2% of total batch weight (not PPO) and for every 10g of citric acid ...I have to add an additional 6.24 g Lye And adding sodium lactate at about 1 - 3%....do you also have to compensate the lye? Or not because it's liquid? Could...

My scale is cheap...but it does weigh .01 oz .... I don't like it cause I have to slap at it to make it turn on. Cheapo. Yep gonna buy the good scale. The mesh is not metal. Just leftover craft stuff....mesh from some bag or something. The kind you can stretch right. For feet I used old mouse...

if I am using the recipe attached... and I have citric acid in powder form and sodium lactate in liquid, can you suggest how much of each and at what stage I can add it? I have hard water, I'd like to try these.

What is EDTA

the bar from the first batch was in water! the little dish on the side of the wall of the shower fills up sometimes. Hmmm...relief! Maybe that was it! I'll make sure it can drain well. The 1st batch I had intended to put an 1 oz of Mulberry (Candlewic? I dont remember, it was a small bottle)...

I'm getting a little frustrated, my soaps aren't turning out the way I hoped. My first batch had no fragrance, no color. You can see the recipe/picture attached. It hit the 4 week mark earlier this week. I put a bar of soap in the shower to use. I like the lather, I like the way it feels, but...

I think it looks worse in reality. I think the camera flash made it look a little brighter than it really does. I'll cut it and see if there is any improvement.

Im Jenny. I'm a newbie. I love soaping! For other new people out there reading and researching before you actually make your first batch....I'd like to share something. I read everything I could before mixing lye with water for the first time. Course like most people, I treated the lye...

Last night I planned an very ambitious colorful swirl soap. I went over the slow moving recipes I had...nailed now the oils I wanted to use. Looked into the possible adverse reactions of the additives I wanted to use...discoloring or speeding up trace. I thought I had it all planned out...

I am about to attempt a soap that has many colors, I want as much time as possible to do swirls. here is the rest of my recipe that I'm going to use: 30% olive oil 20% lard 25% coconut oil 10% rice bran oil 10% canola oil 5% castor oil my concentration set to 31% Superfat 5% I'm not...

I'm planning to make a several color swirl slab mold, will cherry, strawberry, cranberry...are they able to be colored ? I mean...you know how vanilla can't be colored to hide the brown? That's what I mean about these....ok to color red orange yellow...etc?

If I added some bentonite clay would it accelerate trace?

I am making a slow moving soap recipe in a slab mold, can somebody suggest a fragrance oil that will not accelerate trace or discolor soap? I'm going to use Mica to make several different colors. I'd like to use cranberry, cherry or strawberry. I know not to use any vanilla type fragrance...

I am making a slow moving soap recipe so I can do some swirls ... what percentage of castor oil can I safely add to my recipe without it speeding up trace?

My TD is from bramble berry. The label doesn't say for oil or water. Website says for both. Anyone have same product? Answered my own Question my titanium dioxide must be for water because I just tried it in water and had instantly better results than using it in oil. So for anybody that might...

Awesome. Thanks.....oh....I'm gonna make white soap...which would be better, cocoa butter or shea butter? I have TD....but which butter would turn out whiter when finshed?

Great thanks! If I add sugar for lather... I know it could heat it up, but could it darken my soap?

How does cocoa butter get refined? Can I use it okay unrefined? What is the difference in soap making? And if it really needs to be refined and if I can't do it myself....any suggestions?