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I'm just about to give up on milk soap. I've experimented with every variable I can think of - warm milk, cold milk, half milk, full milk, frozen milk, milk-in-oil, adding milk at trace, water discount, no water discount, soaping cool, soaping warm, various mixing times, straining the lye...

Hi everyone, I'm new here and in need of some assistance. I just finished making a large batch of cp soap. In 3 separate molds. When running it through the lye calculator I started messing with my amounts to see if I could get more bubbles. I was happy with the amount and went about...

Hi, Yesterday I was attempting my first batch of cp soap. When I had just combined the oils and lye solution I used a stick blender and did not realize it was not completely submerged in the mixture. When I turned it on, the mixture splattered a few places, mainly on the floor with a little...

I am new to soap making and made my first batch from scratch. It turned out great! The only thing is, I don't like the time you have to wait inbetween making it and using it (so the lye becomes non-toxic.) So now im looking into making soap from straight glycerin instead of lye/oil mixtures...

Hello again :) I finally got the right caustic soda and I made a bit of soap yesterday to test it. Sorry, this will be a bit long, I just want to explain it properly. I am a bit of a safety freak, especially since I have kids and pets around the house, so here is my issue: The caustic soda...

We are wanting to increase production from 5 lb batches to 10 lb batches. I understand I can mix a lye water solution, but want to keep approx. 1 oz of milk per bar. Has anyone ever had any issues mixing this much lye and goat milk together? We currently freeze our goat milk and mix with the...

I just switched from the Lye I purchased at the hardware store, which was packaged for drain clearing, to "food grade, high quality NaOH beads". These beads are almost 4x larger than the drain cleaner. I am also noticing that the water is not clean and clear after adding the lye and dissolving...

Hello, I need help with my soap. I made papaya cold process soap here's my recipe: 11oz olive oil 4.4oz coconut oil 6.6oz palm oil 3.047oz Lye 7.26oz Liquid (i use 50% water i dissolve lye here, and then other 50% was the natural papaya juice) with 5% superfat these was my...

Hi everyone! I have been lurking forums, watching countless videos and taking copious notes for a few months, and today decided it was time to be brave and try my first batch of CP soap. Despite all of this research I am still painfully new so please forgive my possibly dumb questions :oops...

I just made a 5-lb CP batch: Olive Oil (20 oz), Coconut Oil (25 oz), Avocado Oil (8 oz), Castor Oil (5 oz.), Distilled water (18 oz.), 8.1 oz lye (5% superfat), and at the end, just before pouring it in the mold added 4 tablespoons of honey and a splash of anise essential oil. Anyway, the only...

Alright. I made a really stupid mistake. This was my first attempt at making soap, and I poured my soap into an aluminum mold. In all the things I read before I tried to make soap I never saw anything that said there would be a reaction between aluminum and lye! Obviously, I now know that there...

Hi everyone, I'm new on the board. :) I've been reading this forum for about a week (and a few blogs as well), and have gathered a lot of info on soapmaking. You guys are great! I'd like to make healthy soaps for myself, test various recipes, and who knows, maybe eventually start a business if I...

I'm thinking of giving this a try using coffee as my liquid but was wondering if you could make the coffee and put it in a ice cube tray then use that when mixing the lye in?

So I started taking my soap out of the mold and it felt kinda soft so i decide to leave it in for a while longer. Now before I put it down I tried the zap test ( putting tongue on it) and I think it tingled a little. Now i'm not sure if it was just my mind playing tricks on me or what but I...

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I am very new to CP soap making. I made my first small batch yesterday. I got a trace when I used my stick blender to mix the lye with the oils. But my Lye was luke warm. Now I am worried my soap won't turn out OK. Will is set? and if it doesn't set what can I do to to make it in to a...

When making soap today, I somehow weighed the water incorrectly. When I poured in the lye, it was thick --- like porridge. I knew I had messed up so I set the container aside and measured a new batch of lye water in another container. A couple of hours later when I was cleaning up, I realized...