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I forgot to mention that at the asian food store I visited they had a product called Ghee, and it had a picture of a cow on it, made from cows milk if I remember correctly. I was tempted to try that, but when I checked that out on the board here, no one had anything good to say about Ghee made...

I'm back from my hunt, and I found some Cocoa Butter downtown! After searching at the grocery stores and a large drug mart chain, I headed downtown, first to an Asian food store (no luck), then to one of those small health/natural food stores packed with goods you don't see in the large chains...

Hi, I'd like to use Cocoa Butter in my next recipe, but I don't know what it looks like or where I would start looking for it to buy. Is it in grocery stores or drug stores? Health stores? Is it kept refridgerated? Is it packaged in a bottle? Are there certain brands? What should I be looking...

Ashley, punching your numbers into soapcalc, the soap qualities look well within the limits set out. I noticed the hardness was way more than my recipes have been. I've kept the hard oils (palm and coconut) to 30-35% so that the soap is not so drying, with the rest being olive oil or a small...

Ashley, have you used the soapcalc lye calculator for your recipes? If you punch in your recipe it tells you the soap qualities that will result, such as hardness and creaminess. I've been soaping for a year and found that the only time I had a problem with softness and greasiness is when I made...

I've used a green tea for my Lye solution the last few times and I find the yellowish brown colour it gives very nice. I have one bar left of that batch from september and the colour has nearly faded however. In a recent batch however, the colour was more green, so there might be some...

Hi soapy people, I was wondering if anyone knew what was happening with a batch I just made, Cold Process. (I'm fairly new at it, my 6th batch.) For my lye solution I used a honey lemon ginseng green tea instead of plain water, and when I added the lye and stirred it all up it turned a real...