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what saltedfig said should be attached on the top of every page volume in general at home is not a reliable measuring method another thing that I often have noticed also in videos from soaping masters is the bad habit to weigh the oils or greases in a container and then move to another habit...

yes it's correct It means 17 of water to 10 of lye, all measured in weight

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yesterday and today are my mistakes days I started yesterday making a Zany's no slime castille that ended with an overheating, today i grated and rebatched all in two different ways 1) added a cup of water where I boiled laurel leaves, melted and then added 5 tablespoon of salt, it started...

I just want to show you my today's half disaster huge gel phase with crackings and.. better to call it "water phase" considering its consistency :D

Don't worry, commercial Ethanol EtOH, can't be more than 95%, and anyway 91% is more than ok for this purpose

Why not to make....................... SOAP! :D Maybe rancid oils are not good to make those superfatted cold process soaps but if you use the "good old" method, you can still get a good soap for washing stuffs You need to slowly heat the oil to boiling point, in this way you will make a first...

In general, the idea of using phenolphtalein is not that bad but it give us very little information used in the range of pH of this test in our experiment it will be colorless if we have a very large excess of lye, then shades of pink hard to read, and then even if it's very unlikely to happen...

Yes, sorry, i'm not english motherlanguage, I used "over" instead of "super"

SaltedFig give you the answer but remember that this is true only for saponified oils, so if you make high overfat recipes you increase the risk of having trouble of rancidity of the not saponified oils

Disodium EDTA is just an intermediate form between EDTA and Tetrasodium EDTA the switch between the varoius form of EDTA is an equilibrium driven by the concentrations of sodium and hydronium ions (pH) and regulated by the constants of acidity and solubility. Considering this, is "easy" to...

IMHO all that hate for Palm Oil is just a business for someone. i.e. the ones that makes money with clicks and bad information, or something driven by bigger economical interests. These plantation are made in developing countries, where they are deforesting and make intensive use of soil to make...

I don't want to destroy your curiosity, keep doing that experiments, but you need to know that you are doing this just for fun! This because what you are doing is a "chemistry puzzle" that will be quite hard to solve also for a good chemist with a full lab. Consider you are not in front of a...

There are too many wrong assumptions, mistakes and little knowledge of chemistry in what you write, so that you will not get into any significative result in this way. The only way to make something as near as possible to what you want, is to follow a known procedure like "boil X g of ash in Y...

which book you refer to? GMPs are a quite wide world :)

Are you sure you add enough lye? and-or that you blend and mix for enough time? It's an HP or CP?

I can't agree or disagree on what you are saying, it depends on WHY you say this and whithin what limits is inaccurate.. :) Lye ansd salt solutions are not that complicated models that Chemistry (math) cant describe, but.... About CA, Thank you for the explaination, books says can be dissolved...

First of all, what you mean with "CA"? reading this I started to doubt about what I'm thinking so I decided to take paper pen and calculator to clarify to me some points I take this starting case: a 400ml of water (135 oz) with 134g (4.72oz) of Lye dissolved, how much salt (sodium chloride) can...

Just an Idea, with olive oil make a "lower glyceryn" soap, by making on half oil a full saponification in lye and water excess, salting out the soap, washing it in brine, then re-add the soap to the other half of oil, melt, add the required lye and finish the process as usual..? This must be...

From a Thermodynamical point of view, it's just a problem of time to reach the new state of equilibrium of the system :D Jokes aside, without taking paper and pen, I was just surprised because I have a 4.5:1 Water:lye solution and in other posts or articles I read of dissolving in a two or tree...