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Thank you. It never occurred to me that I would need to melt the whole 7 lb container of palm oil before using -- I read that after I made the soap! This was only my second time using palm oil. The first batch contained less than this one.

Here's the recipe I used. The method was cold process: Olive oil 500 grams coconut oil 250 grams palm oil 250 grams rice bran oil 123 grams castor oil 80 grams raw shea butter 50 grams kokum butter 25 g Water and aloe juice -- 384 grams (about one fourth aloe juice) Lye 172 grams Superfat 8%...

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Thank you. I do not consider myself to be a beginner, and I have googled and googled this. The palm oil seemed to be the reason, so I thought someone here might have had a similar experience.

Hello, I'm new to this forum. I've been making soap fairly regularly and have never had any sort of problem until this last batch, which turned out to be extremely dry, hard and crumbly. I followed the exact amount of lye that the calculator came up with (I use Bramble Berry's, but...