I just made some soap. I kept the temperature on low, let it "cook" for I dunno, probably only like 30 minutes or so. It started to harden so I figured it was done. I poured it in the molds. As I was cleaning everything up, just for grins and giggles I did the zap test chemicalpyros reminded...
Got it, thank you ChemicalPyros! Let me ask one other question that might be silly. Let's say that a fragrance has a rating maximum amount that can be added to soap, call it 5%, before that soap might become an irritant. Let's say that I know that a certain amount of that fragrance I add to...
Thanks Chemical! I will use the 1% to 3% as a guideline and try and go by that, but smell as well. As a general matter, if I add some smells to the soap while its baking, and I can smell the smell in the mix, when the final soap is done, is it likely to have a stronger smell than that, weaker...
Thank you ChemicalPyros! If you ever come by pure (or something close to it) gamma linolenic acid or alpha linolenic acid, either as triglycerides or free fatty acids, please let me know. Not just for soap making, but I like their beauty and health benefit profiles just generally. :) Thanks!
No matter what oil you use to make your soap, it is still going to be a mix of different types of triglycerides, some based on oleic acid, some linoleic acid, some linolenic acid, etc. etc. Are there any places that sell (at a reasonable price hopefully!) the different fatty acid based...
I got some random (and cheap!) fragrances and colors to use on my second soap making attempt. A picture of them is below (3 fragrance bottles, then that little color one is one I took out of the pack of colors I bought next to it). Does anyone have any very ballpark recommendations on how much...
Thank you so much Yooper and ChemicalPyros! So here are a few observations (see how accurate I am) and follow up questions:
1. I think my next batch will be a mainly olive oil, some coconut oil mix, maybe a little canola oil thrown in since I have some left and maybe some shea butter as a...
Watched a lot of youtube videos, but they always seem to leave me with questions! My only test run is a 100% canola oil soap, which came out quite nice actually, and seemed VERY easy to make.
1. What is the max temp you would heat your oil/lye mixture to make sure it does not burn?
2. If...
Thank you Dolly. Yes, I was just using the canola oil as a trial run since its so cheap. Still, I rather like the result! Its not hard, but not too soft either, kind of nice firmness actually. Lathers a good bit actually. And a nice natural sweet smell. It is not to bad for a trial run...
Having watched many youtube videos, I learned that most fragrances have a "flash point", the temperature at which if you add them at that temperature or above they will quickly evaporate or steam away or whatever and you will lose the vast majority of the fragrance. So I thought, no problem...
Thank you ChemicalPyros! Much appreciated, and hello to you in Lebanon from Texas! What you wrote makes complete sense to me. I went back and did my youtube search again, and wasn't finding the same results I saw before. So I started tweaking the search terms again and found what I found...
Brand new to this. I went to youtube and searched for soap fragrances or something similar. I expected the videos that came up to have like soap specific type fragrances. But I've watched a few, and they seem to be talking about colognes/perfumes! Like, not soap specific at all, just dump...