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White background for sure. It'll blend better into any website you use to sell them.

I haven't tried the same recipe with only water Susie, but I think I can live with the final honey brown color

I'm not certain but I believe your best best is to use an adhesive label to ensure the product ingredients are always visible to the user. Tags can be lost or removed which would leave a user in the dark as to what ingredients are contained in the product especially ones they might be allergic to.

Hi lady-of-4, nope, I added the glycerin after diluting the paste.

Thank you for your feedback everyone! The other ingredients I use are vegetable glycerin, citric acid and tocopherol. I'm leaning towards it being the sequestering process as lady-of-4 suggested.

Hi everyone, just had a quick question regarding the color of my liquid soap gradually turning darker? My soap is made without any dyes so I found this issue surprising. Is it common for your natural liquid soap to gradually turn darker? The initial color of the soap is a light yellow but then...

Thank you lady-of-4! You're absolutely right, I tried diluting the soap further but it was still too drying. I'm going to go with your first suggestion to take another look at the cleansing factor of my recipe

I'm now starting to wonder if my soap is too cleansing because of my dilution rate? I currently dilute 1 pound of paste with 3 pounds of water. I'm assuming that if I dilute the paste further, I can reduce the cleansing power that is striping my hands of its natural oils and reduce the drying...

Thank you lady-of-4! I'll look into that

Thank you jenfrat and Dennis!

Hi Hazel, Thank you!

Thank you for input Ben and cmzaha! What I find surprising is that Coconut oil is usually makes up the largest percentage of the oils using in commercial natural liquid soap brands such as Vermont Soap, Dr. Bronners and Zum Wash. I'm assuming they use Coconut oil as the largest percentage of...

Hello everyone, I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction on my liquid soap journey? While I haven't had any problems being able to make liquid soap, I have been having a hard time trying to produce a less drying batch. In an effort to make my liquid soap less drying on...

Hey everyone, I just wanted to introduce myself to the forum. I've recently started making liquid soap and have been successful with my initial batches using Catherine Failor's recipes. For those of you thinking of making liquid soap, I highly recommend her book. I initially bought her Kindle...