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Yes, I did use around half lard. The recipe (including approximate amendments - Should have written it down☹) was this: 12% Sweet almond oil 6% Avocado oil 6% Castor 20% Coconut 52% Lard 4% Rice bran (755 grams oil total) 4.5 % FO 1tsp sugar ppo 33% lye concentration 5%...

It's been a couple days and my soap is still soft and it zapped me! There's also a white line running all the way through the log, like whatever it is wanted to be a mica line. I used close to the same recipe as my last soap, which was a new one. I worked with the last one faster than usual and...

Can di EDTA be turned into tetra? It's probably not something I'll want to bother with but if it saves me from having to buy more elsewhere then maybe.. Edit: Ah, I see what you meant now. Upon looking it up, it appears that tetra and di EDTA are interchangeable so long as you account for the...

They changed the title and replied to my email asking about it. Here's what they said: "We appreciate your business and interest in our products! It looks like you are correct, we have an error on this product type / name, its Disodium EDTA not Tetrasodium EDTA. I apologize for this error and...

I hope we can get it to work! I remember reading that now, about turning to pudding. Guess I'll try to add a tiny bit of lye and see if it dissolves and if it does... then blend into oils and make the lye solution with the rest of the water? If it doesn't dissolve then I have a whole bunch of...

This was the product I bought. It doesn't say anything about being a salt or an acid but unless it is terribly mislabeled, being the acid form is my guess. If that's the case, is there anything wrong with adding it directly to the lye solution? Or would it dissolve if I added enough water and...

I'm hesitant to ask this because I think maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I'm trying to use tetrasodium edta for the first time and am having trouble dissolving it. So far, I've measured 3.5 grams of edta and added 25g of distilled water. I've been stirring it once in a while for half a...

I don't know anything about HP soaps so I'm really curious to see what the more experienced soapmakers here have to say. Compared to what I know about CP, a couple things stand out to me about your recipe: unusually high percents of castor and coconut oils, a lot of sugar, a lot of non-oil...

I love SwiftCraftyMonkey but can definitely relate. I'll read pages there, find it super interesting, and then all that info melts into a bubbling mumbo-jumbo gumbo pot. Might find a carrot or something but most of it gets stashed in my brain's "hopefully read again later" file. That said, this...

Thanks all. I have found what you said to be true regarding it not being so moisturizing when made of oil only. As soon as I wash my hands they're back to being dry and crinkly. That's with using homemade, high superfat soap, too. I relayed the info to my step mom and she let her friend know...

Yeah, I can definitely see how it would be a crap shoot. I make my own. A bit too often I put off feeding it and it gets more yeasty then. End up making a lot of "buttermilk" bread stuffs, which is great except for the low carbers around here. More for me! lol. Not soap related, but have you...

I have a few questions about formulation. Also not sure how to proceed with someone who really wants to buy. So, for Christmas I made some body butter to give to close family. I think it could be called body butter anyways.. It didn't contain any water because I didn't have any preservatives...

Cool! How did your yogurt whey soap turn out? I'm going to start making yogurt more often once our new yogurt maker arrives and can try that instead of kefir. What would ethanol or acetic acid do to the soap?

I'm hoping to forgo buying sodium lactate and instead use kefir which I have a steady supply of. The problem is that I don't have any idea how much lactic acid it contains and how much extra lye I might need to add to make up for it. Should I just calculate a recipe with a lower superfat than...

Regarding freezing your soap, how do you handle the condensation after you take it out? If it was in a log mold, do you cut it right then or wait for the soap to come to room temp and set some more?

Thanks everyone! That was all very wise advice and I'm really glad I asked first!! I'll practice burping the air out instead. Terrible at it so far. Also made the mistake of using a whisk. Don't know what I thought would happen. lol. My stick blender was kind of cheap, under $20, but I'll see if...

Looks like a fantastic price for the EDTA but then I estimated shipping and eek! ~$8-$9 depending on how much and I don't want a whole lot. Is that still a good price? Pretty impressed by prices and selection overall. Considering getting RBO and ROE from them too but not sure if it's worth it...

I did a search and didn't get any matches, though I know for certain some people have done this before. So before I ruin my stick blender :shifty:, do I just use a thin drill bit and go at it?

Ooh! Love mulberries! I'm curious about this, too. I imagine they would be like using raspberries in soap (if anyone has ever done that). Kind of doubt the color would stay true. It would probably turn brown. Could maybe separate out the seeds and add them for exfoliation. What kind of...

Ah-ha! Ash (duh, lol)! That sounds like a really good no-fail method to go with. Thanks for explaining :). Since you add fragrance to the layers separately, do you try to measure them so they are the in the same concentrations throughout or just eyeball it? Do you do it that way in case the...