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How interesting, I will have a check! Thank you.

Thank you! I’ll use that calculator. My worry always been to keep it low in case of using too much, will be interesting to see the calc info. I ran the numbers, pretty much spot on what I’ve been doing. 5% is Max for safe EOs like Lavender etc. I suppose I could bump up to 4.5%. I use cedarwood...

I’m finding it had to find the magic number. For example: I always use 4% (per oil amount, so 40g per 1kg of oils) for EOs blends with Lavender/Rosemary/Fir. 3% for oils such as mint/lemongrass and 2.5% for ylang ylang because I find it too sweet. Problem is the soaps fade quite quickly. I do...

That’s a shame about the lather.. I just made a few test batches with rice bran and high oleic sunflower. Will be interesting to see if I can notice any difference to the olive oil. Interesting about SAO- I have used it before and lather was really nice indeed (as well as peach kernel oil)...

Thats very helpful, thank you both. I shall check the blog you suggested. Regarding high oleic sunflower I found a few suppliers but they sell in big quantities (20L) for example Natural Oils | AAK Rice bran feels great in soap to me but it does seem to be expensive here in the UK. Regarding...

Hello all, Lately I’ve been contemplating swapping some of my recipes’ OO for another oil. The recipe has 50% OO. My biggest concern is how these other oils fare with regards to DOS. Do you have any advice regarding high oleic sunflower oil at 15/20% please? Rice bran seems more stable to me...

Thank you all for the input, I’ll try a batch with new palm oil hopefully it doesn’t repeat. I’ve not heard about the citric acid tip before, very interesting! Thank you

Oh yes I live in a very hard water area, although the soap is white as snow, no spots. Trace was usual, a few mins with a stick blended nothing out of the ordinary. There’s always a chance the palm was on the verge of rancidity and went bad in the soap? I don’t have anymore of the palm to do a...

All were fresh besides the palm oil which may have been older, I smelled it and it doesn’t smell rancid though. Hence my confusion.

Hi! No, I didn’t add anything was totally plain. I did use tap water though, but I always used it for years now and never had an issue. I did use more shea butter than usual, around 15%. That’s the only difference.

Hello I’m new to this forum and would appreciate your input. Last few batches have an acid vomitty smell to them when they lather. Otherwise the smell is fine, it’s only when they lather they leave a vomitty smell on the skin. Very odd. The oils used are quite basic, the only thing i could...