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soycrazy

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  1. I have found the overheating to be because of TOO much honey. It really heats the soap up, I've even had it get so hot with honey combined with certain fo's it separates.

    I haven't used honey in ages, because of the overheating when I did it was like a tsp pp. I get this with just using milk like coconut.

  2. I know for me it works great with breakouts, but I don't get them much anymore since going off dairy which has been amazing. I tried to hp them one time and it was a disaster, but I plan on trying it again. Sometimes I add too much salt and they don't lather hardly so I use them like a pumice stone in the shower. I need to try rebatching or add them to a new batch to see how they do.

  3. I do both too. I always have a calendula infusion sitting with olive oil and when I make my soap I throw petals in the hot lye water. I think it's one of the best flower/herb to put in soap, because it never browns and you really never get floating petals in your tub they seem to dissolve. Plus the scent coming from them in soap is lovely :)

  4. No stearic acid, because It is already super thick, almost too hard to squeeze through a tube. I might try to loosen it up more though. I have another recipe I'm going to try that should be looser for bottles. I love experimenting esp with cream soap it's so much fun!

  5. This stuff has a mind of it's own. A couple weeks ago I added glycerin to it and whipped it up. It was fine for a day or 2 then liquid soap separated from it again. Then several days ago I whipped it up again and turned out amazing. Put it in a bottle several hours later it separated again lol, but less. So now here we are and a couple days ago I noticed it started to stiffen up more in the bottle which is annoying, but at least no separation. I'll let it sit for a while and see how it goes. After all this trouble I want to go at it again & make more lol

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