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I didn't know you could buy CO at Costco.

TSW Blue Sugar TSW Forest Muse BB Cedar & Saffron My top 3 men's soap scents.

I always use distilled or deionised water for my soap making.

Great colors and swirls! Absolutely beautiful soap!

Gorgeous soaps!

I use 40-45% - I like hard soap bars. Tallow doesn't accelerate trace.

It's usually dimethylpolysiloxane. It reduces foaming when you use the oil for frying, but it does not affect soap lather. It needs to be under 10 parts per million (0.001%), so that's not a lot. I have it too in my beef tallow.

Thanks for the link!

Perhaps, the level of superfat also plays a role in it... But sodium oleate is the most soluble of all the fatty acid soaps, that's why the 'slime' is typical of Castile soaps.

I believe that the hardness number refers to solubility of the soap, not whether or not it is as hard as a rock physically. Castille is very hard after a decent cure, but it's very soluble - it will melt quickly. That’s the nature of the oleic fatty acid.

Did you use the same recipe?

I really like this one: http://store.scent-works.com/sakurahana.html It smells pretty good OOB, and it's even better soaped.

Usually I soap with a water discount, but for milk soaps I plan to do 50% water/lye solution and 50% fresh milk. I assume milk soaps should be cured longer. :roll:

I made some goat's milk soap and was curious if it takes longer than those with just water to get hard...

very hard!

Very cool, great job!

I need to try that. Thanks for sharing!

This!

very nice, I love the color!

beautiful!