Search results

Thank you everyone for the replies. I decided to get coconut oil. Really excited to make some soap and hope it will be good enough to share :)

Stink is a big turn off :( Does it stink just in the process of making or in ready soap as well?

One more question. Are scales with 1 gram resolution precise enough for weighing ingredients? I saw scales with hundredth gram resolution metioned in tutorials but hope it's not that essential. For example, can amount of lye of 119.78 grams be safely approximated to 119 or 120 grams?

Thank you lsg! Going to check it out.

Hi, I'm about to make my first portion of soap and the question is about oils. I want to try making liquid soap and the most accesible oil in my area is cold pressed sunflower. Do you think it's ok to use sunflower oil alone for liquid soap? A lye calculator that lists some properties of ready...

Hello, An aspiring soap maker from Russia here. I've long wanted to start making soap and am at last in the stage where I got the needed chemicals and most of the equipment. All I have to do now is to choose oils and study the instructions in more detail. So, hopefully my first batch will be...