OH NO!! Recipe resizer has gone!

[busymakinsoap!]

I just tried to visit the 'Summer Bee Meadow' site to use their recipe resizer and it seams to have gone!

I have just had some new soap molds made for me and really wanted to resize my recipe

Does anyone know of any other site to use?

 

[soapbuddy]

I have been calculating mold size by L X W X H, then multiply the total by 0.4

 

[busymakinsoap!]

thanks soapbuddy that usefull to know.

I do no that my moulds hold 1kg, however the difficulty is working out how much oils to use so that when combined with the water and lye I end up with exactly 1kg worth of soap.

The lye calc will let me add total oil weight, I guess I'll just have to play around with my oil weights until by some kind of miricle I end up with the desired quantity :?

 

[Bubbles Galore]

Soapmaker3 says about 700g of oils. :wink:

 

[danny p]

I believe the calculator at www.thesage.com will let you resize after you calculate your standard recipe.

 

[AmyW]

busymakingsoap,

if you use the formula soapbuddy posted you will know exactly how much oil your mold will hold. The formula takes into account water and lye. Multiplying the height, width and length then multiplying that number by .4 will give you the oil amount in oz, which you can then convert to to grams if you want.

Example: If you have a 12"x3"x2" mold, you would use 28.8oz of oil (12*3*2*.40), and with the lye and water, that total batch of soap will fill that size mold perfectly.

 

[Stacey]

I just tried to visit the 'Summer Bee Meadow' site to use their recipe resizer and it seams to have gone!

I have just had some new soap molds made for me and really wanted to resize my recipe

Does anyone know of any other site to use?

I KNOW! :shock: I sorta freaked out on Saturday when I went to their site to resize a recipe. I hope they come back soon!

Egads! Me and math don't get along at all. I know you can easily recalutate it with LXWXH x .04 but I don't trust my math skills. I always tell my DH that his math skills are the reason I keep him around. That and his spider killing ability.

 

[AmyW]

I just tried to visit the 'Summer Bee Meadow' site to use their recipe resizer and it seams to have gone!

I have just had some new soap molds made for me and really wanted to resize my recipe

Does anyone know of any other site to use?

I KNOW! :shock: I sorta freaked out on Saturday when I went to their site to resize a recipe. I hope they come back soon!

Egads! Me and math don't get along at all. I know you can easily recalutate it with LXWXH x .04 but I don't trust my math skills. I always tell my DH that his math skills are the reason I keep him around. That and his spider killing ability.

No need to trust your math skills, just use a calculator like one on your computer. The WORST that will happen if you have a little less or more than you need and have another small mold ready for overflow, but if you do the l*h*w*.40 it WILL give you the correct amount of oil to use.

Note that I'm a complete moron with math. I have some sort of number dyslexia (my bank account used to be such a mess til I figured out what I was doing - switching numbers all the time) and I only barely eeked past basic algebra in both high school and college... if I can do it, anyone can

 

[Stacey]

You know what though?...I tried using the calculations once...and some how screwed it up anyway.

I think it has something to do with the volume of oils AND the water together that messed me up! I think that's what I figured it out to be anyway. Somehow I ended up with way more raw soap than what I space for. I ended scrambling for a plastic container to dump it into. Now I've learned to have a silicone mold nearby for just in case.

If you look at the original sticky note here on calculating molds it says for the "ounces of oils needed for this mold". It doesn't say anything/any where about the water volume. So as a noob I was literally thinking OILS. Not total amount with water. That's where my non-mathmetical brain doesn't see where it's a problem.

I know, I know... :wink: 'Doh! LOL!

That's why when I found the recipe resizer I thought ALL was completely right with the world! I was saved from having to make that mistake again.

*tap*tap*tap* waiting impatiently for Summer Bee Meadow to get back online! Or I will have to learn how to use the calucations correctly.

 

[busymakinsoap!]

Soapmaker3 says about 700g of oils. :wink:

Thanks Bubbles Galore!!

 

[AmyW]

The calculations take into account 38% or so of water to the weight of oils, so if you use 38%, it'll fit, but if you use more water than that, it's won't, less water and you'll have even more room in the mold. Make sure you measure the inside of the mold too

Example - my wsp silicone mold is 8x3.5x2.5, I get 70 from that, multiple 70 by .40 and I get 28, or 28 oz of oil. Just to be on the safe side, I use 26oz of oil so I don't have to do a fancy top unless I want to... if I know I want to make a poofier top, I do with 28.

For one particular recipe I use, it's 26oz of oil, 9.8oz of water/liquid, and 3.6oz of lye, fits perfectly.

It's definitely worth getting comfortable with so you don't have to rely on the recipe resizer

You know what though?...I tried using the calculations once...and some how screwed it up anyway.

I think it has something to do with the volume of oils AND the water together that messed me up! I think that's what I figured it out to be anyway. Somehow I ended up with way more raw soap than what I space for. I ended scrambling for a plastic container to dump it into. Now I've learned to have a silicone mold nearby for just in case.

If you look at the original sticky note here on calculating molds it says for the "ounces of oils needed for this mold". It doesn't say anything/any where about the water volume. So as a noob I was literally thinking OILS. Not total amount with water. That's where my non-mathmetical brain doesn't see where it's a problem.

I know, I know... :wink: 'Doh! LOL!

That's why when I found the recipe resizer I thought ALL was completely right with the world! I was saved from having to make that mistake again.

*tap*tap*tap* waiting impatiently for Summer Bee Meadow to get back online! Or I will have to learn how to use the calucations correctly.

 

[summerbeemeadow]

Re: Summer Bee Meadow Calculators & Resizers

To our site members, visitors and users of our SBM Soap Calculators and Recipe resizers:
My long-time health situation had been slowly deteriorating for years, though forestalled by my participation in an experimental drug program several years ago (Eli Lilly drugs - Subject drug has been named "Dulaglutide" and is expected to be submitted for FDA approval in 4th quarter of 2014). Unfortunately, when that trial ended, my health again took a downward spiral. The upshot is that we had to curtail retail activity here at SBM some time ago due to the load I was putting on our family.
My current status is permanent disability and my ability to keep things up is intermittently totally curtailed. The last several weeks has been such a period and, after some changes at our website hosting service, the SBM site became difficult, if not impossible, to access due to some complicated changes needed in its "back end".

I had been unable to expend the full day's work needed to make the SBM site right until recently and I think I've done what's needed to bring SBM and its popular calculators back. More is needed, but I should be able to accomplish that in dribs and drabs.

I have also been working on a new website a bit at a time, SBMCrafters.com, where I intend to also host the SBM Calculators and Recipe Resizers to doubly insure against site failure due to inevitable changes in the programs used and at our hosting services.
In the meantime, please bear with me. I've made changes at SBM to improve its stability over time without maintenance, will do more of the same and am slowly putting together SBMCrafters in similar manner. It's a way to keep myself busy a bit at a time as I am able.
I apologize for the disruption to SBM and will do my best to see it is not repeated.
-Steve Mushynsky

 

[grayceworks]

You can resize the recipe on soapcalc if you know the total oils your mold will use....

1) you enter the original recipe as-is.
2) click to select the % column instead of the amounts column above the oils you have entered. Click calculate recipe. the percentages of oils will show up in the percent column. (section 6)
3) change the total amount of oils in the box under the oz/grams/pounds selector to your new total to fit your mold. (section 2)
4) click calculate recipe again. You now have the new recipe with the right oil amounts for each oil.

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

To all those having issues -

The first time you make a recipe, note the percentages of the oils!

Then, when you want to resize and your favourite or most comfortable-to-use calc is down, you can just use the % that you noted and work out the new amounts based on the new total.

I never keep my recipe information based on weights

 

[DeeAnna]

To add to the Gentleman's most excellent advice: If you know the volume of your old mold and the weight of oils that fit that mold, you can easily figure the oils needed for a new mold.

Old mold volume = length x width x height

New mold volume = length x width x height

New mold oil weight = New mold volume / Old mold volume * Old mold oil weight

 

[new12soap]

To our site members, visitors and users of our SBM Soap Calculators and Recipe resizers:
My long-time health situation had been slowly deteriorating for years, though forestalled by my participation in an experimental drug program several years ago (Eli Lilly drugs - Subject drug has been named "Dulaglutide" and is expected to be submitted for FDA approval in 4th quarter of 2014). Unfortunately, when that trial ended, my health again took a downward spiral. The upshot is that we had to curtail retail activity here at SBM some time ago due to the load I was putting on our family.
My current status is permanent disability and my ability to keep things up is intermittently totally curtailed. The last several weeks has been such a period and, after some changes at our website hosting service, the SBM site became difficult, if not impossible, to access due to some complicated changes needed in its "back end".

I had been unable to expend the full day's work needed to make the SBM site right until recently and I think I've done what's needed to bring SBM and its popular calculators back. More is needed, but I should be able to accomplish that in dribs and drabs.

I have also been working on a new website a bit at a time, SBMCrafters.com, where I intend to also host the SBM Calculators and Recipe Resizers to doubly insure against site failure due to inevitable changes in the programs used and at our hosting services.
In the meantime, please bear with me. I've made changes at SBM to improve its stability over time without maintenance, will do more of the same and am slowly putting together SBMCrafters in similar manner. It's a way to keep myself busy a bit at a time as I am able.
I apologize for the disruption to SBM and will do my best to see it is not repeated.
-Steve Mushynsky

Thank you so much for your post. I love the calculators but I certainly understand struggling with health issues. I wish you the best and thank you again for letting us know.