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Hi all it's me again. The one obsessed with shaving. Well something that you hear about, in some shaving soaps, and some soaps in general, is this magic pixie dust called bentonite clay and, well first of all it's not magic and ingesting it in anyway will not help you fly and/or cure all your...

I haven't stopped experimenting with my shaving soap formula from my very first post... That's about 100g every day :confused: I don't have a problem

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So it's normal for it to go from a hard puck to soft cream cheese?

I just noticed that a lot of my shaving soaps are going really really soft... With no exposure to water.. Any idea?

These are them. I'm not sure why they gained a hole in them but they are good.

Oh! I thought I posted an update regarding that on haha. I was frustrated with it and so I just dumped about 5 grams of one of the oils in. I think it was shea butter haha I'll get a photo of it now

Second attempt at the dual lye shaving soap and I think it came out really well! :D

Wet shavers don't like clay or anything like that in there shave soaps for some reason.

Thank you I'll read the article soon!

I think I saved it!

So should I biff it or can it be saved some how?

Just substitute 10% of my KOH for NaOH @Obsidian

This time round I roughly used 90% KOH and 10% NaOH and this time was much odder. The soap (after being cooked for well over 3 hours) still has not lost its zap. Nor has it solidified to any state. Went hard as soon as I added the lye but once it went back to a soft liquid it never hardened up...

From what I understood that is how it's meant to be (KOH makes soft soap) but now I'm not entirely convinced it's that cut and dry. The all KOH recipe that I made seems to produce a much harder puck than what should be expected but still pliable like what you would expect in a dual lye 4-1 KOH -...

Thank you for going into the level of detail you just did :) I'm trying something a little different now and I agree with you that there's another prosses happening apart from the water evaporation. I'm thinking about running some tests soon, involving silica jell breeds some soap and a...

I'm going to try making it again and seeing if I cook it longer if I can get it to harden up a bit. The soap has gone a bit soft and my desiccant is not pulling any water so it must be something else.... Hey that's a massive compliment :oops: thank you and trust me when I say if I can do it...

Thank you for the compliment! I haven't quite got the exact % of the extras that I add to any shaving soap that I might make but I will try and keep a better record. I do want to try and find a recipe of my own that doesn't need any bentonite clay. I love archery. That's a huge compliment and I...

It looks a lot more even now. Not as pretty but still good and much harder.

You don't have to worry about me using glass again. I'm not going to be doing that anymore. I have lanolin and Shea butter and I used them both in my current attempt but I added them at the start and added glycerin towards the end. I might make another mini batch and see if it make a...