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    75% olive oil 25% coconut oil cure time?

    Hello all, last week I tried a new formula with what I had on hand. It is a 75% olive oil and 25% coconut oil blend. It is still really soft and sticky after a week! I was hoping to give the bars out for Christmas, but is this likely to be ready in 5.5 weeks? Newbie here so I didnt realize that...
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    Peppermint oil at 2.5%, too much?

    Has anyone here done a pure peppermint oil soap? I recently did a peppermint 2nd distill EO soap at 2.5%. It feels nice on my skin, nice and cooling, smells absolutely wonderful too (strong scent), but I'm kind of wondering if this was too much. Brambleberry's fragrance calculator told me up to...
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    Calculating maximum fragrance with multiple FO/EO's

    Hi all, Quick question on mixing FO/EO. I apologize if this has been covered before. I would like to make an Orange Cedarwood soap. I am planning 2:1 orange to cedarwood in 34oz of oils. Bramble Berry's fragrance calculator says the maximum Orange 10x I can put in my soap will be about ~2...
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    Milk soap questions - and why doesn't it go "bad"?

    Hi all, Please forgive what I'm sure is a novice question, but my Google-fu was coming up short. How can one make a soap with goat's milk, cow's milk, etc. and not have it go rancid? I'm just thinking of every other milk-based product I've ever consumed, yogurt, cheese, milk, etc. they may last...
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    First time adding fragrance and natural color, would love some advice!

    Hi all! I've been itching to branch out and add a bit of fragrance and color to my 2nd batch of soap... but I'm a bit timid and would love some advice. :) This was my first recipe I made a couple weeks ago and it went well. I want to tweak this as I already have the ingredients. This is Soap...
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