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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Just made my first ever soap, pictures below. 100% canola oil to keep my first soap making lesson cheap. :) I used the calculator from this site: https://www.brambleberry.com/calculator?calcType=lye Mainly because the one on this site had a bunch of questions I did not understand haha. :)...