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French green clay Oh and I do an 8% superfat.

French green clay Wow so it's definitely something I'm doing. That's what I was afraid of. My recipes are basically 32%coconut oil, 32%palm oil, 32% soybean oil, and 4% castor. I use about 2 tsp of French green clay for a 2 lb batch. I'm wondering if it could be my soybean oil. It still smells...

Hi everyone, Hope you all had a great Halloween! I seem to be noticing a trend in my soaps but I can't find anything on the internet about it. Have any of you found that French Green Clay tends to cause cp soap to develop spoilage? I've tried so many green natural colorants, chlorophyll...

It worked! Thank you DeeAnna, it worked! My LS is now a rich amber color, and clear. I swore I wouldn't make LS again, but now I'm already thinking about starting a new batch. Funny what a little success will do. My final question, I hope, is whether the LS is ready to be used or not. Having...

Thank you Deanna, for explaining the process to me. I did not quite understand it earlier, as you surmised. It's not that I don't have an appropriate contain, I do. It's just that I separated it into 4 mason jars and added different essential oils to each. So I was hoping to save the...

fixing this batch Thank you everyone, for all of the very helpful information. My soap is still separated with a cloudy layer on top. I thought it would eventually disperse, but it shows no signs of doing so. I'm going to try to fix this batch by adding in more KOH as suggested by many of you...

Prairie Lights, I too shook up the liquid soap. Now its starting to separate gain, but I think it is slowly going away. Maybe I just need patience. I find that liquid soap is definitely a lesson in patience.

Hi DeeAnna Thank you for your well thought out reply. I guess I thought that sap values, on charts, were all identical, and that online calculators all differed. I was wrong. It would make my life waay simpler if I used an online calculator rather than my hand calculations. I am always worried...

Kristy Yes that is exactly what happened to my soap. It was fine before I added the essential oils. I don't understand. Would polysorbate 80 work? Can I use the soap the way it is?

HI seven I realize that the sap values that I used (from chart on site, from nature with love) appeared to not be rounded up. So I got .188 for soybean which I guess would round up to .19. But I used .18. This also happened for castor oil. I didn't know we were supposed to round them. Thanks for...

Hi Dee Anna, even without coffee your math is great! Thank you so much for taking the time to help. I did know about the KOH being less than 100% pure and did add in (what I thought was) a lye excess of 8% but not 10%. I find it very confusing. Every online calculator gives me a different value...

palm oil sap Ugh, yes you're right DeeAnna. I had the wrong palm oil sap value. Thank you for checking. But I'm still not sure it would have been enough of an error to mess up the soap. The lye amount would only have gone up by .2.

lye calculations Hi Susie Thank you for your reply. I always do my lye calculations by hand, I'm not sure where I went wrong. If anyone would be willing to check my math, I'd be really appreciative. Palm oil SAP rate = .139 X 3.6 (oz oil) = .50 coconut oil sap rate .252 X 4.2 (oz oil) =...

Hi everyone I know that the range of expertise on this forum can help me understand what I did wrong. I finally tried liquid soap after making cp soap for years. This was my test case recipe: 3.6 oz palm 4.2 oz coconut oil 18 oz soybean oil 6 oz castor oil 6.3 oz KOH 18.9 oz...