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The above picture was when I just poured. 40% palm, 25% coconut, 35% Olive oil 30% lye concentration. This is how it looks like now. Apart from soda ash I hope nothing is too bad. 🙏 Thank you... ❤

I think I pour my soap to the mold before trace. I was experimenting with new FO and worried about acceleration. The soap looks like this, but it's very very liquidy.. Is there anything I can do to make sure it saponifies well? Thanks in advance.

I'm thinking about making a fragrance oil mix in batch. I have already worked out the ratio and all that, have tried using it in CP soap. Now that want to mix them in large quantity and store them, how do I start? Is it as simple as pouring one into the other and stir it? Is there any...

Maybe, although I still can't figure out what. I recently changed my body lotion tho. Ironically that's to moisturize my skin. 😅 It's 2.5%. And I've used that previously with no problem. 😞

So, I've been using a bar of CP soap from my 4th or 5th batch (I'm new to all of this) and for the last 2 days I've got dry skins on my arm. Just one arm, and just this batch. It's a honey soap with cinnamon FO (not EO) at only 3% PPO. Right before this one I used another soap (from another...

I made an activated charcoal soap. Is it just me or AC soap is hard to gel?

Thank you.. Yes, it's cold process. But it's still less than a week old. I will show the lather here perhaps after curing. Since I spilled more castor oil than necessary, I'm curious as well.. *fingers crossed* 😁🤞

I tried using a new fragrance for my soap and I'm so happy that the FO didn't accelerate at all. I also added some dried peppermint and *fingers crossed* I hope it would gel as well as my honey soap..

Thanks a lot. I need that.

Great, thanks a lot. I was worried if there will be oil seeping out or if it will somehow spoil. 🤗

I tried making one with castor oil, then, I spilt my oil so that I got 7% castor oil instead of 4% that I planned. I have another batch planned to see if I like castor oil.

So, I want to give my soaps to a friend who is leaving in a week. I just cut the soap today. Would it be safe to wrap them in baking/kraft paper and then give them away? Thanks in advance.

I see. I'll try putting some in my soap and see the difference. Thing is, a lot of CP soaps in the market use it, but I wasn't sure if it really does what it's advertised for or it's more for labelling benefits. 😁😁😁 I bought some soaps with castor oil in them but I can't feel the difference...

I see. I got confused because I read that castor oil improves lather but sugar does that as well. It's clearer now. Thank you.

I see.. Thank you. 😄

Ah, I see. For lather, does it make any difference if I use sugar instead of castor oil?

Hello everyone... Seeing that a lot of people use castor oil in their soaps, I have some questions. How significant is the effect of 5% castor oil in CP soap? What is the main reason to include castor oil? Is it the lather or the benefits for the skin or something else? I'm using only palm...

Noted. 👍 I went to lyecalc to adjust the setting. Thank you.

Thank you very much everyone. I'll try soaping at higher temp too, because the last two batches didn't even go through gel phase. (And definitely buy a thermometer.) I'll try the water discount as well. My other "good batches" still have soda ash on top, though not as bad as this one...

1tsp in 1tbs of oil for both. I used all my TD but not the charcoal since I was afraid it'd be too dark.