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I have seen people use raw cocoa butter and cocoa powder to colour their soap and they say that it smells like chocolate. I think adding good quality chocolate FO would be good along with the other two ingredients.

I think that rice bran oil would be a good choice and you could reduce the percentage of butters a bit too. High oleic sunflower and high oleic canola oil would be good too. If these are not available then you should use canola oil and increase the percentage of butters in your recipe. Add salt...

I have not tried salt bars. I think this might be really good. I too live in a climate which has a hot and humid summers and salt bars are likely to be generally long lasting. Thank you for all your help.

Unfortunately, sunflower oil probably won't work. The fatty acid profile is what really matters. Regardless of that, thank you for your help.

Thank you. This is quite helpful, but high oleic sunflower oil is not available.

Welcome to the forum. I don't clean cartons/cans used as molds, if any soap batter spills on it I just wipe it off immediately. Containers used for mixing and measuring the lye solution and lye, I rinse them as soon as they are used and later wash them like usual with soap and water. As for the...

Thank you. Soy wax might be available. It would dissolve in water very quickly and was quite drying even though I used a 7% super fat. The qualities of the soap that the soap calculator gave me told that the INS and iodine values were not in the range and indicated the bar of soap was soft...

No, the blend were taken from Elly's everyday soap making channel on YouTube.

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I appreciate your suggestions. Thank you, but unfortunately the many recipes that I came up with were no good, so I thought that it would be good to consult this forum.

You could turn turn on the light of your oven and keep your soap in the oven or you could turn the oven for bout a 5 minutes, turn it off and then keep your soap in.

Looking for a recipe which uses oil from this list only ; coconut oil, sunflower oil, canola oil, soy bean oil, neem seed oil, castor oil, ghee( max 10% is possible). I have been looking for a recipe with these oils and could not formulate a good recipe with these oils. These are the oils that I...

These are some EO blends you that might like : 1) Ten fold orange = 80% Cedar= 20 % 2) Bergamot= 60% Patchouli= 20% Cedar= 20% This is where I took these blends from: Elly's Everyday soap making

Thank you

I am looking for a balanced, fresh and floral scent to add to CP soaps . If anyone knows of such essential oil blends please tell me about them. Thank you.

I should be fine the way it is. It has quite a lot of oil high in lauric acid so the 10% super fat will compensate for the drying effect of the soap. It won't be oily.

I appreciate your generosity. I'll try this recipe.

This is particularly for absolute beginners. However, these are great for all soap makers. I recommend that you visit these YouTube channels to help you with soap making: Elly's Everyday Soap making: https://www.youtube.com/@EllysEverydaySoapMaking/featured Delizia Naturally...

Yes, I was able to find how to wet render tallow. Thank you.

Thank you for advice. Thank you! GW415 soy wax, palm, high oleic sunflower and canola oils are not available. I don't sell my soap, it is just for my personal use and for my family. I will try purifying tallow using salt, I really appreciate your advice.