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Anything with real citrus will make your curing room smell absolutely amazing, and be almost totally gone by the time the soap is ready to use.

I think you'd have to search to find low-oleic safflower. It's a matter of seed variety and HO is more commonly grown. Luckily, you can tell by looking at the nutrition information label.

The vomit smell with butter is butyric acid, not rancidity. The freshest butter will still smell that way.

Oh Mama is in for a rude awakening when she's the only one to solve all the Terrible Two problems. Thanks, Everyone.

Two years ago we moved my pregnant daughter into our home from an unstable situation. Her stuff filled my garage workspace and the new grand baby has filled our time (and hearts) since. Well, Mama and baby girl are moving to their own apartment at the end of May. The withdrawal won't be too bad...

I just put a couple tablespoons of paste in an old BBW bottle and filled with hot water. Now that I've shaken it to dissolve the late, I'm about to try it. Based on how it looks, I bet it's about twice as soapy as it should be. ETA: Nope it worked. Cloudy, but it smells good and isn't drying...

Howdy Folks! Anybody tried a bit of corn starch or arrowroot as a thickener?

I work in the electronics repair industry. It's not at all uncommon for us to receive returns of printers from entirely different manufacturers. Once, we got back a Nikon camera in a printer box. As for the OP question, I would change my policy to All Sales Final. Assuming you sell only...

Most soda is pretty acidic. It will probably increase your superfat a decent amount.

The math is a lot easier when it's 50%. All you have to do is switch the calculated amounts so calculated "water" is your masterbatch amount and calculated "lye" is your additional water. It's also 50% smaller to store.

You're on the right track. I haven't tried this where the exact amount was important; I've just used it to make Berlinner Weisse a few times. This too. I love this stuff. I dilute it to typical acetic pickling strength and use it to make fake fermented pickles. You get that soft lactic...

I would generally agree, but there is a particular bright yellow color that I have seen several times with unsap'd soaps in silicone and that first pic matches it pretty closely. Now that we know it's just bad lighting....

That looks WAY better. Has it changed from the first pic to this one? How much time passed between the two pics? Or is the first one just THAT far out of whack for color?

If you're interested, try posting another pic of one of the bars on a sheet of white printer paper for comparison.

Individual silicone molds are hard to gel because they don't have enough mass to "work together" so their own heat can help them gel. With CPOP (using the oven) they are likely to get silicone blisters. I personally just don't bother trying to gel the individual ones. Soap doesn't need to gel...

Judging by that bright yellow color, that soap is nowhere near finished saponifying. That is, assuming you didn't add a colorant that you didn't mention. Where they done in silicone molds? Individual silicone molds like that rarely gel, IME, without some extra help. Sometimes they seem to...

IIRC, I think the "cleaning" number in the calculators is just the sum of the lauric and myristic numbers.

Very much this. Honestly, if your mater batch is stored at room temperature, the additional heat from adding more water isn't enough to get the lye to soaping temps.

It depends how refined it is and how many unsaponifiables it has. You'll just have to experiment with your supplier.

FWIW, you can buy a Lactobacillus culture from a brewing store online and inoculate just about anything you want that has sugar to create your own non-dairy lactic acid. Or alternatively you could take a culture from naturally fermented sauerkraut or pickles and do the same thing.