Since entering the soaping world I find myself with a garage. When it's hot
outside does is effect the soap? The last few batches I've made have been
very soft. Should I keep them inside for the summer, outside in the cooler
weather? Just feel like I'm my soaping game, ya know--
Hi Members! Since entering the soaping world I find myself with a garage. When it's hot outside does is effect the soap? The last few batches I've made have...
What I have noticed is that when I make soap in the summer it seems to take longer to "set up" and dry before I can cut it (I use log molds). But, we don't...
Karen, Hey girlfriend that helps alot! That is what my soap has done, it gets almost stuck in the mold (I use vertical). When I'm finally able to get it out,...
I usually use the MMS calc and use just under the largest amount of water recommended. I suppose with the humidity it just doesn't evaporate? What do I know...
Hi, Ladies... I usually discount the water quite a bit, and find there is less shrinkage in my soap and it seems to be ready to unmold faster. I used wooden...
How much do you discount Alaena? I've always been a bit afraid to go less that I do now. I do soap at fairly cool temps, mostly room temp or a bit higher....
Hi, Connie... I can't tell you what percentage I discounted, at this point... but looking at some of my recipes, it looks like I used approximately 24 oz. of...
Hi Alaena; I've used lots of dumb (unusual) things in my soap; chicken, duck, pheasant, peacock and emu egg, (can you tell I like egg soap?) butter, and even...
Hey Connie, Looks like Aleana is using 56 oz liquid (24 + 32 oz milk) to 23.5 oz lye. I use 29oz lye with 52 and 54 oz water regularly for my 12 lb-of-oil...
Hi Kathy, Could you tell me more about your plexiglass mold? Like, where did you get it and was it super expensive? Also, what do you mean by "moving nicely"...
Connie, What, if anything, do you think the egg contributes to the soap??? When I first started making soap I added eggs; it turned out a very pretty yellow...
Hi Kathy, What does the salt do? Rita Kuehn Coral Cottage Originals 763.712.5505 www.coralcottageoriginals.com ... From: Ron and Kathy Wiederholt To:...
Don't know; maybe it's a head thing. Every soap I've used egg in seems a bit richer, creamer and milder. Makes for a great facial soap. Egg yolk is full of...
ok, Kathy, now you brought up a whole new subject; how much lecithin do you add ppo? And you mix it right in with the oils and the fo? I got some of this, but...
Hi Rita! Salt in soap, as Kathy describes using it, helps to produce a hard bar. It's also a natural water softener so it helps produce bubbles, especially in...
Thanks Karen! How much salt should be used, like as a percentage or teaspoon of oils or lye, or whatever? I want to try this! Rita Kuehn Coral Cottage...
Karen wrote: Anyone else have .02 worth to add? Hi, everyone... I use sea salt in all of my soaps, too... to make a harder bar. I put the salt in the water,...
Oh! Something I forgot to mention about adding salt to a soap batch.... I believe that, as a general rule, people who make soaps using only VOs add salt for...
I had to exercise my mind on these for a while, but I think she means Vegetable Oils and Animal Oils. I know that lard will give you a hard bar, so that's how...
Sorry, but I have no idea; I soap with AOs so I haven't tried adding salt for hardness. I haven't made any "spa" bars, but I've read where people have added...
Karen W wrote: Also, I shouldn't have said "It's also a natural water softener so it helps produce bubbles..." because that's misleading; the salt doesn't...
Yes, if you want to make "spa" bars, it really is that much salt! I've never seen or used one, but people who have used them have posted that they love them....
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