Lye Gel

[atiz]

I tried that and it did not deduct the vinegar from the water amount. I will try again. a atiz Unless I am brain dead tonight and that is always possible if you turn on masterbatch I do not find that it deducts the vinegar amount when you turn liquid discount. The liquid requirement stays the same. Please correct me if I am wrong. It does deduct the vinegar from the liquid requirement if masterbatch is turned off. I still do this part of the math myself and do not depend on the program to do it for me.

Sorry @cmzaha, you are right and I was ambiguous: I don't use the "masterbatch" setting and meant only that if the masterbatch setting is off, it does deduct the vinegar. (I don't masterbatch my lye so it's easier for me this way.)
(I still usually double check the math manually, but so far it has always worked so I'm starting to give it up...)

 

[purely soaps]

Noe

@Rsapienza, if you are going to use vinegar and 50/50 masterbatch in soapmakers friend turn on the box for using masterbatch. Then use 1:1 if your masterbatch is 50/50. Now go to the additives and choose vinegar. Check your recipe totals to see how much liquid you can use so you know how much vinegar you are able to use. Now pick how many oz or grams of vinegar you want to include and fill in the box with the appropriate amount. The program will now up the correct amount of extra masterbatch and up a small amount of liquid. What you want to remember to do is deduct the amount of vinegar from your required liquid. The program does not do that for you. This only applies if you are letting Soapmakers Friend Calculator do the math for you. It is very important that you verify whether you are using grams or ounces when marking the box for vinegar.

If you want to manually figure out vinegar usage you figure out your water and NaOH requirements decide how much you want to replace with vinegar then multiply the vinegar amount by 0.0357 to get the appropriate extra NaOH required. So if you were to use 8 oz or 226 g of vinegar you would need 8 g extra NaOH. Hopefully I did not make it to confusing

Now I m a bit confused? Does this same ratio apply when I use apple cider vinegar?

 

[DeeAnna]

"...Does this same ratio apply when I use apple cider vinegar?..."

Yes it applies. There's no magic to vinegar made from apple juice as opposed to vinegar made with beer, wine, rice, grain alcohol, etc. Vinegar, any kind, is still vinegar, no matter what was used to make it.

 

[purely soaps]

Thank you so much!

"...Does this same ratio apply when I use apple cider vinegar?..."

Yes it applies. There's no magic to vinegar made from apple juice as opposed to vinegar made with beer, wine, rice, grain alcohol, etc. Vinegar, any kind, is still vinegar, no matter what was used to make it.