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I seem to find that some recipes tend to prodigiously produce these nasty looking spots after some time while other recipes seem immune to the issue. All my soaps are made and stored the same and all come from the same source for ingredients. I do tend to put a fairly large variety of...

I think this is the first time I've seen DOS. On two week old bars though? Your thoughts...:Kitten Love:

Hi, this is the first time something like this happens. Have no idea why as I used ROE to keep my oils in good condition, and as well in all my recipe (1 drop x every ounce of oils) that was the rule of thumb Lori Nova gave me when I took her CP boot camp course. The original color of my soap...

I sometimes see ingredient lists from reputable soap makers where coconut oil is the first ingredient followed by olive oil and/or rice bran oil and palm oil. I would have thought that coconut oil as the first ingredient in any soap would mean that the bar would be very drying. But these soaps...

Any chemists out there? Does the level of polyunsaturation (and cis or trans) have an impact on the saponification in terms of speed or completeness? I got DOS in my 1st batch of CP soap made using 30% sunflower (no super fatting) - SF is the most unsaturated fat I have used. No sign of...

I have seen the term "DOS" and I know it is a bad thing! but what exactly is DOS?

Hi everyone, When I made my first soap it was an all lard 1lb batch which I scented with tea tree (from a well known book). It turned out well, as in it made soap(!) and I set off on my soap making journey. Some weeks into the cure a couple of the bars developed DOS so that immediately put...

Hello, I'm new to the site and have only been making soap for a year and a half. I have had some decent success and sell wholesale and make soap for a couple of shops. One shop I make soap for provides her own essential oils and I provide the soap. We have run in to a problem with her soaps...