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Yep, distilled is different from tap, I'm aware of that. The recipe did say, "distilled or soft water". Soft is what I had so soft is what I used. I've already diluted the paste so it wouldn't matter now and it's cleared up considerable since last night and is even much lighter than 5 hours ago...

Thanks all, after sitting out all night it cleared up quite a bit. It's WAY less milky, more of an amber translucence. My scale is accurate but this is the first time in YEARS (like 15) that I have followed a recipe that wasn't my own. I wanted to follow a recipe because I had never made liquid...

Ya, I saw a post about that I have to go back to. I prefer cp to hp in general for sodium hydroxide bars. I love hp bars for purposes of fancy molds (gave up on fancy molds with cp long ago) but the oils always smell too broke down, like they got too hot :) even if they are fresh and new. So if...

Thank You Susie! I had already turned off and started dilution because I kept thinking that in hot process some of mine never get translucent or gel but they still turn out fabulous. Coincidentally those batches that don't get that see through look are the ones which have a high amount of...

Hey there, I'm a newbie to the forum but I'm a 25 year veteran CP soapmaker. Today I attempting to make my first liquid soap. Something seems very wrong. I misread the part in the directions where you are supposed to stir every 25 min for 3 hours. Instead I checked twice in the first hour for...