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I made my own solid bar soap (Lye + Oil). After cured time, i intend to use that bar to make gel form soap. First, I skive it into pieces and put them with boiling water into my blender, then I blend them so they dissolve. Then I add extra glycerin and honey, blend them once more time ===> I...

#IrishLass They make their own hand-made soap and do not mention about superfat. Thanks for your reply. I think I will try 50% coconut oil soap with 10% superfat + little glycerin and check it out :D

#Susie I found a small company in my city which makes soap only by coconut oil and palm oil, but their soaps are very good at moisturize skin, extremely beer soap. Sub ingredients are only glycerin and another powder or liquid like milk, mint leaf powder, etc. So I think glycerin can focus...

Thanks for sharing your experiment. I try to add extra glycerin because i made soap buy 50% coconut oil to perform rich bubbly lather. Common problem is high percentage coconut oil cause skin drying. So I decide to use extra glycerin to focus it.

I've never tried it before. I intend to add lye into water first. Then let it cool down around 30 Celcius degree. Next, I add lye water into freezing milk cubes, prevent the common raise of heat by putting that cup into another big bowl full of cold water. Then I suppose to add glycerin into...

I do not remember the percentage but i can tell that i used more than 30% Coconut oil. So maybe that's the point. Thank you all :D

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I made my own soap (5% superfat) and send one to my friend. She always works in a room with air-conditioner. She told me that her skin was drying while there was nothing wrong to me. Now I wanna figure out which oil/butter is the best at moisturizing skin so that I can make my next soap more...

I've just seen a video on youtube about how to make a clear solid soap, but i can not understand much about those ingredients, their behaviour zzz Is there anyone has experiment about this? Share me yours :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHS1V8HIwoE

@bhelen, @notapantsday: 2 weeks ago, i bought 1 soap and its scent now still remain as the first time i opened it. Its ingredients are: + Coconut, Olive, Grape seed oil + Natural Glycerin, Honey, Organic Turmeric powder + EO: Palma Rosa, Cedarwood, Orange I can easily smell cedarwood's scent...

@ Gentleman: I used 10ml peppermint EO for ~ 450g soap, just light. I made that by cold process so my soap did not have gel stage, and stayed at room temperature. @ Lass: It may work, i'll try it next time. Thanks so much :D

I already made few bars of soap with peppermint essential oil. While the soap have been cured, i realize that the scent's been fading day by day. I searched on webs, and found some conclusions but i don't have any experiment of them. Those are: + Add kaolin clay to soap, thay said kaolin help...

I'm a newbie from Vietnam, where seems quite hard to find a crockpot or oven like people has in tutorial clips. My mom has a halogen oven like this one, I wonder whether using it ok or not? Please give me an answer or a tip :neutral: