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Well its been roughly a week now and the bars have lost the strange, crumbly soft texture and have hardened up a fair bit. I gave one a go and washed my hands and I was pleasantly surprised, it was very mild and had a nice creamy, little hit bubbly lather. Scent wise it does leave some to be...

Oh I will. Its great fun. Im just going to redo the recipe but include the lanolin in with the base oils and then calculate the suoerfat.

Yeah, I am aware of my super fat. See, lanolin isnt a fat but a wax so I figure that its almost a seperate thing from the soap. If I had the soap at 0% super fat, and added 5% lanolin as the super fat itself after trace, id just have a bar of lanolin laundry soap wouldnt I? Thats my thinking...

Hey guys n girls! Just finished up my second bach of CP. Heres my soapcalc recipe for your viewing pleasure My aim with this soap, is a hard, mild bar with a creamy lather that is gentle and conditioning on the skin, with added moisturizing goodness from the lanolin. My skin loves...

Ah okay well that makes sence. If it takes the same amount of time I the end, ill stick to CP. As I dont really like the semi translucent colour the HP did to my soap, from gelling I assume. Id like to avoid that and get a nice white solid bar.

But everything I've read online says otherwise? That once its been cooked the saponification is complete and all it need is time to dry out?

Right, I thought the point of HP Wad so it was ready to use basically straight away? And that it just needs a couple of weeks to dry out some? I did superfat at 5% :) Well seiing as it will take a few weeks, I mught do a large batch of this recipe CP.

Okau guys Thanks for all the input. I wanted a more conditioning bar, so I changed my recipe to include olive and castor oil. 40% beef tallow 40% olive oil 5% castor oilt 15% coconut oil I also decided to yo with eucalyptus and tea tree oil at 3% I did the lanolin at 2% (next time I'll leave...

Yes I've already run the recipe through soapcalc. Why would you not add the lanolin? I can't see any reason not to, the main issue I see is whether to add it at trace, or in with the oils to start with. I don't want a whole heap of different oils. I want a tallow bar with just a bit of...

Also, any advise with the lanolin would b be great. I hear it degrades at above 40c?

Hey everyone! My names Daniel and im a noob. I'm about to make my first ever soap and wanted some advice when it comes to essential oils. This will be CP. I'm going to use frankincense and myrrh ES. As is my first soap, I'm keeping it simple stupid and using 1KG of base oils. 85% Beef...