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I put the beer in a large bottle, shake it and let the fizz out of the bottle. I do this a couple of times. Then I freeze it into ice cubes and let it thaw a bit (until it looks like slush ice). Then I add the lye which heats the beer to a temperature about 40-60 degrees Celcius. At this...

You should use whipped soap if you want to be able to make piping. It has a lot of air in it which makes it more fluffy and easier to squeeze out through the nozzle. Ordinary CP soap is hard to get out of the piping bag again. I tried it once, and you can see the result here...

Thanks guys. JudyMoody, thanks a lot for a thorough answer - that helped a lot :-)

Dear All I have previously made a 25% CO, 75% lard soap which took a fair amount of time to trace. This time I wanted to do the same, but I used a Guiness-type beer instead of water (oil temp. 40 degrees Celcius, lye/beer temp. 50 degrees Celcius - combined probably around 42 degrees which was...

I can see, it comes in a tin, so it probably doesn't get very hard. I use linseed oil as a paint medium and it seems to keep well, alhough I don't know if I would have the same opinion, if I tried to eat it.

I am an artist who paints with oil based paint, and normally I use ordinary soap to clean my brushes. I have read about a soap (Ugly Dog Soap) that is made for cleaning brushes, and it seems this is made with 100% linseed oil (flax). When I run this through SoapCalc, the resulting soap is WAY...

I put whipped soap on top of CP cupcakes. It stuck fine. Remember that whipped soap gets used up faster, if that is a concern.

I put a new topping on cured cupcake-soaps. It stuck fine.

OK - thanks :-)

Thanks! I froze my beer and let it thaw a bit, so it looked like slush ice. After adding the lye, the temperature was about 40 degrees Celcius. No volcano or anything :-) Do you think there is a chance the oil will reabsorb and my soap will turn out OK after all?

I have just made two batches (different recipes) of beer soap (with Guinness). I used muffin size silicon molds, put the soap in the oven at 50 degrees celsius and turned the heat off. In both cases I got droplets of oil on top of the soap as if it were overheating (I suppose). I find this a...

I was wondering about that one. Good to know. Thanks! On the other hand, I think mine has a nice, thick protective layer of grease :-)

I see your point. I just want to try to avoid the most obvious mistakes and pitfalls. So if you think this looks like it would make a decent shampoo bar, I will try it out.

I am still trying out very basic recipes (this one is 100% CO, 20%SF) but I am playing around with the looks. This one is dyed with cocoa powder. I added some salt to some of the soap to make a salt bar cupcake.

Thanks a lot guys. I think I will be conservative and leave the macadamia nut oil for an experiment some other day. Now, I have adjusted the recipe: 25% CO 20% Castor oil 10 % Jojoba oil 15% PO (or lard) 5% Cocoa butter 25% EVOO 5% SF (or 7%?) I am still a bit in doubt. Should...

I want to make a shampoo bar, and I came across Deanna Duke's recipe: 36% CO 18% Castor oil 9% Jojoba oil 14% PO 5 % Cocoa Butter 18% Sunflower oil I already have some Macadamia Nut Oil, and I was thinking about using that instead of Sunflower Oil (and running the recipe through a lye...

OK, thanks! :-)

Did you try it out? I am curious to hear about it. I want to make a shampoo bar too and I was thinking about making a bar with those ingredients, but I am a beginner and very unsure about how to create a recipe that will work.

I was just wondering: How coarse is the salt you use? Here, we have fine grained (like sugar or a bit finer), coarse (1-2 mm diameter) and chunky (even larger). Which one would you use for a salt bar? And does it matter that regular table salt has added iodine (13 mg/kg)?

Thanks a lot. I am happy you like it :-) Yes, I am new at this. My first batch was with stuff I had in the fridge. Lesson learnt: Never, ever, make soap with butter! It stinks! Batch two was a Castille, batch three was the brown cupcake base, batch four the Bastille in the back and batch five...