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I am a Sri Lankan 67 years old. Worked in several multinational corporations in the shipping and logistic departments. Retired as General Manager. After retirement commenced a LLC My hobbies are fish breeding, wine making, soap making, reading, scientific research and trials. Creativity is the...

I am a Sri Lankan 67 years old. Worked in several multinational corporations in the shipping and logistic departments. Retired as General Manager. After retirement commenced a LLC My hobbies are fish breeding, wine making, soap making, reading, scientific research and trials. Creativity is the...

No haven't used a soap calculator since glycerin, liquid wax, carbolic acid not included in the list of oils and fats of SoapCal. I have schedule to do another trial tomorrow with carbolic, glycerin and liquid wax. Planning on doing 3 test trials as follows: First - Incorporating glycerin...

The oil container have no expiration dates. However, I have added citric acid to control DOS. I have made a small batch of Neem and Tumeric soap. Turned out okay. Curing about a week now. No issues as yet.

Hi! Your recipe has more soft oils than hard oils. You don't need Shea butter for a NaOH and KOH soap formula. Also your method of incorporating lye and oils are wrong. Your soap mixture will never set. I wonder if you could even use that mixture as a body lotion. If you are interested in a...

Hi Kim I too started Soapmaking a little over two weeks ago. Prior to commencing soap making I watched a lot of videos on soap making through YouTube and also read a lot of information through the Internet. I followed a free course offered by Alison through their platform. Also purchased a few...

Batch Numbers should contain following information: 1. Name of manufacturer 2. Name of soap maker 3. Ingredients 4. Amount of each ingredient 5. Variation 6. Manufacturer and Lab No. of ingredients used 7. Soap Manufacturing date 8. Soap expiration date 9. Curing time 10. Method of...

Today I did try out a very small batch of soap using the following ingredients and composition: Coconut oil 97 g Castor oil. 15 g Liquid wax. 15 g ( white oil) Neem oil. 30 g Carbolic acid 11 g Total oil weight 168g CP method. Added lye water solution to oils at temperatures...

This evening checked on my salt soap. " Sweating" stopped. No more beads of water on surface and f the cakes of soap. Let them dry over the refrigerator top. However humidity as at right now is 93%. Time is 11:45 p.m. (15 minutes to midnight)

Thank you for clarification. Anyway, I want to try making a small quantity of soap- ~ 100g total oils, with carbolic acid and white oil just to see the outcome. Nothing tried ... Nothing gained. Just for the hack of it. Will post results here.

I have the following ingredients of very old stock: Glycerin Neem oil Carbolic acid Liquid paraffin wax ( white oil) Castor oil. I am told that these oils have no expiration dates. Can I use these for soap making? Can any or all of the above oils be used with a combination of coconut oil...

I have had this problem with the salt soap only. The temperature in my city is 32°C as at this point of time. 05:45 p.m. anyway I have placed these soaps on top of my refrigerator in the kitchen. A bit warm but cannot do anything about humidity as rains expected by 07:00 this evening. Hopefully...

I did three batches of soap just last week. The first batch was actually my first try on soap making. Started from scratch. No melt and pour for me. Used lye (NaOH). Result not so good. Many mistakes and errors. Learnt from them. Second batch was Neem and Tumeric soap. The problem I had with...