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Hello all, I just introduced myself in the intro section and I'm ready to ask my first question.

So, how important is it to use a soap recipe that someone else has come up with already? I mean if I go to a lye calculator and put in the different amount of oils by percentage I'd like to use, is it possible for me to come up with a recipe that will turn out right? Or should I stick to a tested recipe?

There are some oils I have on hand that I'd like to put in my soap and I just wonder if I'm biting off more than I can chew trying to make my own recipe when I'm an absolute beginner.

I used the information off of this article: Free Beginner's Guide to Soapmaking: Common Soapmaking Oils - Soap Queen and soap calc to come up with this recipe:
[ATTACH=full]58955[/ATTACH]

Does this look any good?

I'm a very adventurous person and I really like doing things my way, but if this is just a bad idea, please let me know! Thanks in advance.

<blockquote data-quote="MellonFriend" data-source="post: 898812" data-attributes="member: 51607">Hello all, I just introduced myself in the intro section and I&#039;m ready to ask my first question.&nbsp; <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙂" title="🙂" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" />So, how important is it to use a soap recipe that someone else has come up with already?&nbsp; I mean if I go to a lye calculator and put in the different amount of oils by percentage I&#039;d like to use, is it possible for me to come up with a recipe that will turn out right?&nbsp; Or should I stick to a tested recipe?There are some oils I have on hand that I&#039;d like to put in my soap and I just wonder if I&#039;m biting off more than I can chew trying to make my own recipe when I&#039;m an absolute beginner.&nbsp; I used the information off of this article: <a href="http://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/tips-and-tricks/free-beginners-guide-to-soapmaking-common-soapmaking-oils/" target="_blank">Free Beginner&#039;s Guide to Soapmaking: Common Soapmaking Oils - Soap Queen</a> and soap calc to come up with this recipe: [ATTACH=full]58955[/ATTACH]Does this look any good?I&#039;m a very adventurous person and I really like doing things my way, but if this is just a bad idea, please let me know!&nbsp; Thanks in advance. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="👍" title="👍" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="MellonFriend, post: 898812, member: 51607"] Hello all, I just introduced myself in the intro section and I'm ready to ask my first question. 🙂 So, how important is it to use a soap recipe that someone else has come up with already? I mean if I go to a lye calculator and put in the different amount of oils by percentage I'd like to use, is it possible for me to come up with a recipe that will turn out right? Or should I stick to a tested recipe? There are some oils I have on hand that I'd like to put in my soap and I just wonder if I'm biting off more than I can chew trying to make my own recipe when I'm an absolute beginner. I used the information off of this article: [URL="http://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/tips-and-tricks/free-beginners-guide-to-soapmaking-common-soapmaking-oils/"]Free Beginner's Guide to Soapmaking: Common Soapmaking Oils - Soap Queen[/URL] and soap calc to come up with this recipe: [ATTACH type="full"]58955[/ATTACH] Does this look any good? I'm a very adventurous person and I really like doing things my way, but if this is just a bad idea, please let me know! Thanks in advance. 👍 [/QUOTE]

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