Nobody could possibly get seriously hurt using those amounts.
Sure they could. Never once does she even suggest gloves or goggles.
http://frugalfarmwife.com/article/diy-hot-process-soap/
Nobody could possibly get seriously hurt using those amounts.
Murray, I really like your posts. I think you are very smart, and probably a great soapmaker. But for those of us who are still starting to figure it out, do you not think it is better to use the calcs and err on the side of caution? I do, and still end up with lots of mistakes, but am not selling them. I think that was the part of the initial post that bothered me, the idea that someone would sell something that was ostenstibly instantly cured.
People we find online get ridiculed on a regular basis. It just seemed ironic that the person knew that 2 oz NaOH would be safe with 1 lb of any oil, while someone here thought it was dangerous. That advice is crude but not ignorant.
Yeah they say:
• Our soap is chemical free – made only with coconut oil and clay.
• Our soap has no added chemicals and is SLES free.
Horsehockey!
. . .brunettes?
Have no clue what you mean, but I'm a brunette, so yay me! Unless the fact that I don't get it means I'm having a blonde moment? Hmm, maybe I do get it.
(No offense to blondes. Some of my best friends are blonde!) :-D
I'm not appreciating the tone in which you keep referring to my comment.. I hope I'm just reading it wrong.
Sure, maybe THAT recipe is safe no matter what oil you use, but the blogger still makes no mentions of how every recipe needs to be run through a lye calc. So say someone takes her method, finds a properly calculated recipe, but decides to switch out a few oils without figuring the new lye amount. They make the soap and it burns them and they have no clue why the new recipe didn't work.
That article is dangerous because it doesn't educate.
"Top" in my world means something that I suspect you are not, so I'm not going there. If you aren't a Murray, then I'll default to TOMH.
Edit, JBOT, TOMH was joking about another post where the Gent was talking about soap molecules and how the "boy" molecules gravitated towards the blond "girl" molecules.
"Top" in my world means something that I suspect you are not, so I'm not going there. If you aren't a Murray, then I'll default to TOMH.
Oh my. Lots of gay friends and even had a gay roommate and I didn't go there!DeeAnna, your post made me laugh b/c so many of my friends are gay, so I would use the term advisedly too! I'm afraid I am going to have to go with TOMH, TOMH.
"Top" in my world means something that I suspect you are not, so I'm not going there. If you aren't a Murray, then I'll default to TOMH.
TMOH, no, no, not bottom either I get why Murray does not work, though, that sounds so much like an old lovely grandfatherly type who does not make soap.
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