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I have been told that the city changed drastically in the last 10 years. It was also in an article of a famous US newspaper as a very nice city to visit last year if I do not remember wrong. The new museum is very interactive and super cool. (Closing the OT now :D :D )

Let us know if you do it, sounds very interesting. The soap produced does not have any odor at all :) :) It smells like soap. not sure how to describe it. It definitely does not smell like fried stuff. I have been told by friends that are chemical engineers and chemist that lye sort of takes...

That would also be possible. Most of the places here in Odense, Denmark, are using rapeseed for their frying and I have not seen or heard anyone using other oils for frying. I will keep on looking. I never made soap with 100% rapeseed oil, always mixed. We did make a 100% olive oil soap and it...

Ok, this is some really cool insight. Should I stick with a certain percentage of sugar based on the lye? I have never done it :D :D Ok, will try it tomorrow. Thanks :) :)

Ok, was not aware of the potential rancidity of the soap. Thanks for the input So if I wait longer the smooshy effect that it does today it could go away?

The idea was to make a 100% soap from upcycled used cooking oils. We can try it though, thanks for the suggestion :) :)

May 30th.

Hello people, We wanted to play a little bit and tried to make soap from used cooking oils, 100% rapeseed oil. I went to a canteen and they gave me 2 liters to play with. Always wanted to see if we could make soap from upcycling waste cooking oils :D :D We filtered with very tight nets/cloths...

Hi, I tried and you can find it here. It did not work that much. Thanks for the suggestion :D :D

Hello people, I found another very good supplier of oils and butters: https://www.heessoils.com/en/ Ordered from them shea butter, coconut oil and olive oil and I am extremely happy about them. Cheers :) :)

Hello people, I am bringing back this old thread/post since I received around 300gr of alpaca hair from a lady that heard I make soap and has asked me if I could make some with her animal's hair. Since I have never done it, I am just wondering how much hair I should add in the lye to make...

Thanks Artemis. I have seen a few videos and read also scientific articles as well, however I am not sure if they are the same you found :D. If you have the opportunity, feel free to redirect me to the ones you found so I will get new knowledge. Will check now in the forum for sure what you...

Hello lovely humans, A lady that has some alpacas gave me some of the hair they do not use to make products since she read online that I could make some cool soap when extracting Keratin from it. Since I have no idea how to do it, I was wondering if maybe people have done it and could...

Thanks for the links, I can see price wise the one suggested in previous posts are still quite convenient for us. Italian one you can find this one: I am using Manske lately and the ratio quality-price is very good :) Hope it helps.

Would it be possible for you to put some links to the companies you mentioned? I tried googling them and I got very interesting websites that did not bring me to suppliers of raw materials, thanks :D:D

Ok, cool beans. I will need to try it and get back to ya :) :)

That day I had to stop the melting since I had to be a witness to a friend to get a new online ID. Everything got melted once, then I left it there and came back 40 minutes later and melted everything over 54 degrees Celsius. I guess this could have caused this. I will try one more time this...

Thanks for the input people. I was not aware of what they were and enjoy the other thread. The round soap was poured into Pringles Tubes and I am not sure if this is what it caused that.

Hello people, Long time not doing soap and being here. Hope everyone is doing well :) :) I have seen a lot of development and it will take me weeks to slowly get up to speed with the forum and everything else :eek: Two days ago I made some soap and when I cut it, today, I noticed this strange...

Thanks for the nice words about how the soap look :) :) I think you are right, they are more stearic spots than air bubbles. I will cut my next batch with a knife and see how it comes :) :) This weekend we will make some more soap and will for sure bring it to a higher degree to check out if it...