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Been using some of our bars of soap and have been disappointed that they have gone soft in the soap dish, the recipe is as follows Olive (pomace) 500g Coconut 250g Castor 50g Shea Butter 100g Sweet Almond 50g Babassu Oil 50g 142.69 330g Water Is there a way of making a harder, more durable...

Just tried out a test batch of mini shampoo bars. While initially the bars worked, after a while myself and others who tried it kept getting itchy scalps. Here is the recipe. Lye 33.7g Coconut 62.5 Olive oil 62.5 Jojoba oil 10g Rice bran 25g Shea butter 37.5 Sweet Almond 37.5 Where could I...

Don't do superfatting, so every time we've done the soapcalc the level has been set to zero and we get 73/74.

Recently applied to have EU assessments done by chemists, to make our soap legal to sell. But the response that was given by the chemist about our recipes was that the lye amounts were too high. For example, here's one base recipie. Pomace oil 225g Palm Oil 125g Coconut oil 125g Castor 25g...

Recently unmoulded and cut this piece of soap and there is some weird looking streaks going through the soap, what do you think is the problem. The recipie was Olive Oil 200g Coconut Oil 125g Rapesed 75g Sweet Almond 75g Castor oil 25g. The soap was dyed with Titanium Dioxide.

A stick blender was used, and it was taken to a hard trace.

here is the image of the soap, since the photo was taken the soap looks less damp and the colour has changed a little.

This soap came out an absolute disaster, the recipie was Olive oil 200g Coconut 125g Rapeseed 75g Sweet Almond 75g and Castor 25g, To soap is wet around the edges and there is a big crack in the side. Some of the oils were mixed with the mica and the scent to help dispersal. Could stirring this...

The oils were at a similar temperature around 90 farenheit.

The amount of oils we used was Oilive (200g) Coconut (125g) Rapeseed (75g) Sweet Almond (75g) and Castor (25g). The Lye was 72g and the water was 165g .

We just made a batch of soap and decided to slow down trace by letting the Lye Water cool down to about 90 degrees farenheit (30 degrees celsuis). The soap has hardened very quickly in the mould but there is no heat. Have we left the Lye Water to cool for too long.

Used some litmus paper and the dyed area seemed to have a higher ph than the undyed area. The soap is only a day old, so i will try again in a few days.

Just made a two colour soap, one half is undyed, while the other half is dyed pink. The oils used were as follows 8oz Olive Oil 4oz Coconut Oil 4oz Palm Oil Instead of making a slurry with the dye, the oxide dye was directly added to the soap mixture. The end result meant that the undyed...