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    Good Night Salty Margareta

    This little supply place by me designed this FO, called salty margareta. This is the most amazing scent I have ever smelt, just like a margareta.
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    Couple pics of my last couple soaps

    These are only my 6th-9th soaps ever First ever piping URL=http://s1374.photobucket.com/user/buckscent2003/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsjrhrjjbo.jpeg.html][/URL]
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    Good Night Salty Margareta

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    WTB: cutter

    Yea, those look great. But really wanted a used one right now.
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    WTB: cutter

    Looking For a soap cutter, prefer multi cut. Also looking for a slab cutter. Maybe all in one? Thanks
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    Good Night Salty Margareta

    Thanks.....I just hope its still not like playdo in 3 days like my last one
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    Good Night Salty Margareta

    Good Night Salty Margareta - cut pic Just put this one to bed, tried a different (slower tracing) recipe and it worked much much better. In the pot swirl
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    Next question: soft soap

    Sorry for the confusion. I am using SoapCalc and the 33% is the "Water as a percentage of oil weight" Water is 12.54 Lye is 5.45 Based on Total oil weight of 38oz
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    Next question: soft soap

    Yes, water to lye on my cals Yes it did go thru gel, i looked at it when I turned the heating pad of and it was hot, I could see the top changing to a darket orange
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    Next question: soft soap

    Im sure all my dumb questions have been answered before and you all are gettign very annoyed But hey, I'm to lazy to look...... But what would cause a soap to be very soft after 24 hrs in the mold? I mean soft enough to roll it into a ball. Put on heating pad for about 20-30 minutes and...
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    Slab cutter suggestions

    Need a slab cutter, anyone have any suggestions? Need a single cutter to cut into my loafs.
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    Temp for adding lye

    Thanks so much, I have to remeber to read about that before I buy/use. Being a newbie there is so much to think about and it just dosent flow yet. But you all are helping me so much......thanks ALL!!! I think i need to put up a board in my work area, like a check list. So much mica pp, so...
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    Temp for adding lye

    The 2 FO are Nature Garden honeysuckle and Camden-Grey Gardenia. I just made another batch of same recipe and used Camden-Grey Orange FO and had plenty plenty of time, actally for the soap I was making 8 was trying to get it thick and took forever, so the previous being the recipie is out.
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    Temp for adding lye

    Only problem is I combined 2 differnt ones, guess I have ro research each one. I will post names up here later
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    Temp for adding lye

    Yes, of course
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    Temp for adding lye

    Actually no. It is the first time, come to think of it I also changed recipe a little from 10% rice bran to 5% rice bran and 5% castor. But it was only 2.75 oz each. Not much at all.
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    Temp for adding lye

    So many dumb questions :-). So If you add your lye water to your oils at say 110-120 degrees and they both are within a couple of degrees of each other, you stick blend as usual, add you colorants and FO/EO, will it trace and get very thick much faster than doing the same thing at say mixing at...
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    Butters - refined/unrefined

    So using unrefined in soap, does it not affect the colors or FO/EO you use?
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    Butters - refined/unrefined

    Like what kind of surprises? So why not use refined for CP soap?
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    Butters - refined/unrefined

    Like shea, Which is better? Whats the differece (beside the color)?
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