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I have heard that adding oris root powder at trace helps to bind the fragrance. I did use it for a while, but never paid attention to how much oil I used....so not sure if it helped or not.

So go by the lye calculator???

Hi all, Thanks for passing on the lye calculator. I had copied a few recipes from the internet...plugged them into the calculator, and wow, all of the lye amounts were off by quite a bit!!!! Whats with that??? Now I'm scared to follow these recipes.....is the lye calculator bang on???

Shortening I just checked in our big food store here, and shortening here is a mixture of soybean and palm. But it doesn't say what percentage is what. How can I calculate the mix??? Or is the SAP value close enough??

Is Whole Foods a grocery chain?? I don't think we have it in Canada. But I'll read all the labels on the shortening....Thanks!!!

Thanks all for replies Hi, I have made soap with lye before, but its this peticular soap that I'm after, because it was sooooooooo nice!!!! And thanks to the reply about "saponified"......thats exactly how it was worded on the label!!! And I didn't realize that shortening was palm oil!!!!

Hi all, I'm new here, and new to soapmaking. I'd like a bar with the following ingrediants, can anyone tell me how much of each to use?? Olive, coconut and palm oil (I can't find palm oil anyhow, what would be the closest equivalent??)....glycerin, water and sweet almond oil. And lye, I...