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Castor should have been at 10%. I think I got about half of the shampoo out. SF was 5%. Hadn't heard of hybrid bars so I suppose there is hope yet. Thanks!

I substituted a surfactant shampoo for castor oil today. Got much out and replaced with castor but it was gloppy and jelly. Still in the molds so will see if any is salvageable - I doubt it tho.

Hi. I've been making soap with out much issue and with great success for several years now, however today I messed up big and hoping someone here with great chemical smarts (Deeann?) could chime in. I substituted a surfactant shampoo for castor oil. They are in the same shape bottle and...

Try using sugar to boost lather?

Thanks Irishlass I had found those same posts as well which is why I asked again as the answers in the above posts seemed to vary. Thanks. I too did a Google search, however, read conflicting thoughts on the SAP value.

Hi. A friend used red turkey castor oil in place of her regular amount of castor oil for her latest batch of cold process soap. I haven't seen her soap yet but I'm concerned that it would be lye heavy. My reading tells me that that red turkey castor is not saponifiable. Any thoughts? TIA

I use it to bind citrus scents. It does add a bit of an extra slip to the suds.

Anyone?

So I had a bad soap day ... Citric acid added to oils instead of disolved in water first (it burns when melting oil, don't do it) and then a miscalc of the addtl lye needed to counter act the CA (used 1gm CA x 6.24gm lye, instead of the 10 x 6.24 -and yes I do know better) .... So because a...

Thank you! A good reminder to myself to always triple check "advice" I read online

Hi. Have been using CA in my soaps for sometime with no issue other than being careful for boil over when adding lye to the CA / H2O mix. Today I read to add the CA to oils instead to avoid potential boil over. I had 7# of my regular oil mix and added the 67gm of CA, then over very low heat...

Perhaps not ... But the response is very helpful to the rest of us with rosecea. Thx.

Love the ghost swirl!

Wanted to make a classy-ish B&W swirl - but not thinking used lemon grass in the scent blend ... Now I have a lovely Halloween soap ... Smells great tho (lavender cedarwood lemongrass). its not quite as yellow in the pic but still yellow.

Well did a quick search on ylang ylang ... Seems it is one of those scents that does smell horrible and pee like to some people. That must be it.

So are the ylang ylang notes such that some will smell it and others might not?

Hi. Made a beer soap with my usual recipe (OO, cocoa butter, castor), with ground oats and a blend of ylang ylang, bergamot & cedarwood ... I've heard that beer soap can give off an ammonia smell during curing but 2 months on and it still smell slike cat urine. Even my hubby with little sense of...

Yuk! I make mine )75%OO) with 20% water to oil ... Gets hard fast and never slimy. Wonder if there is another reason for slimy ... ?

Thanks for the pointer . I very seldom get ash but I did on this time on these intricate molds (the first time in many many pours) ...

Hi. I had 60+ small soaps made in a fairly intricate mold, which developed ash. I knew steam would sometimes get rid of it but it's a bit time consuming ... So one by one, using tongs, I dipped each into boiling water for no more than a couple seconds and then put on racks to dry. Presto ...