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the dirty jugs (what i pour batter from) are getting more airflow than the bars are, the soaps were put in a cardboard box, no rack. the jugs just sitting on the floor in open air. after 48 hrs, soaps are hard. jug leftovers, still puttylike. the shavings/leftovers on the jugs aren't just soft...

Hey, I just whipped up some soap yesterday, and something that always seems to happen to me has finally got me here to ask if you guys all experience the same thing, or have an explanation as to why this phenomenon is happening.... when beveling my fresh soap, the scraps are staying soft, even...

rain is theoretically distilled water, it's just falling through air that is riddled with pollutants from car exhaust, factories, general smog ect. I dunno the PH of rain in a big city, but something tells me it's probably acidic too. I'd say if you took rainwater from distilled water (in a...

I also have that one- def. never looked at a spoon or potato peeler again. it's just so much faster

sounds like the perfect opportunity to try my hand at HP finally....

sorry I worded my first post ambiguously. I meant when pouring my lye into my oils as well. I didn't mean to make it sound like it thickened when pouring the batter into the mold. It thickened immediately when the lye hit the oils too. Fragrance free, but I am using a wire cutter. But those...

thanks for the reply! I just wish I didn't have to make 1kg of ugly soap to learn the lesson AGAIN that temperatures matter :p if those blobs of soap are actually just soap, but very ugly, I guess I have more soap for myself, nobody can see these. at least it won't be wasted. I'm not sure I...

Are these stearic spots? or just pure cocoa butter? I got way too comfortable soaping with lard and liquid oils, I stopped checking my lye water temps... Got sloppy with a 20% cocoa butter recipe, and I finally experienced false trace. Started getting clumpy right as I poured, never got fully...

I think it's important that we get pure stainless guitar strings, not the nickel plated ones! I think :P

what three cutters did you buy,if you don't mind me asking? so i know what NOT to get? :P

I don't even know what to say :0 Thank you so much!! You always have an answer to the questions I have!! It has helped me so much. I really can't thank you enough. Aldi man... I really love this store. It really sounds promising, this plant fat block. I'm on a budget :P It's almost a curse...

Three ingredients.... Palm oil, Canola (rapeseed) oil, and air... . but they don't have any ratio... but something tells me this would make some good soap. How would you all work with this, in regards to a lye calculator? short of contacting the company and asking them their recipe :P

This is what I got: https://www.amazon.de/MOSUO-Epoxidharz-Seifenfarbe-Schimmern-Farbpulver/dp/B07PM5F98H/ Has anyone had any experience with cheap generic micas like this? Does anyone have any suggestion on the best way I should use this? 1:1 still holds, and hope for the best? :P

I'm gonna toss em for sure, I just wanted to fine tune my recipe... a soap w DOS, I just want to make sure that after adding chelators/antioxidants, it will behave like the DOSSY soap did...

here's what my rapeseed experiments look like after one month of curing... most have DOS throughout... some actually turned Fully orange? (3+4 row from bottom). Some concentrated near the stamp only (2nd to last and last row) DOS didn't seem to develop at all on the ones that I added coffee...

I too had my first cases of DOS recently, and it's quite demoralizing :P you ain't alone!

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That makes sense, with castille soaps, to add roe prior to the oil storage... But then, that's getting half the amount of the recommended ROE that K. Dunn reommends? Without knowing what I'm getting, no more than .5 grams was recommended @ mixing prior to storage, but 1 gram to fats was...

Hello Everyone, So my canola/rapeseed experiments went as expected: orange spots in under a month, in everything over 50%. I don't have high hopes, but the verdict is still out on the sub 50%. Either way, I've also concluded that antioxidants/chelators, as many of you have already recommended...

I wish I would have read this before I hit the road, I maybe would have Cpoped it, and it would have been cut and looked better. But It was moot anyway, I got DOS in 3 weeks. :p but I know for next time!! PS: I am also a HUGEEE squirrel fan :))