venus78

Hi Meridith, I have another question and I'd be thankful if you could help me. My soaps which are 3 weeks make my skin flakey and a little dry. I used the same recipe plus grapeseed oil and 6% superfatted. I'm so disappointed because I wasn't expecting it at all. I purchased my olive oil from grocery and I suspect that olive oils in grocery might not be so pure although they say they are. Do you have any idea what could be wrong? Thanks a lot

Thanks a lot Meridith. I will definitely use your recipe next time I'm making soap and will reduce superfatting to 5%.

Here's my recipe: coconut 26% Palm 26% Olive 39% Castor 5% Sweet almond 4% Superfatted 8%

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I did melt the hard oils completely, but before I melted hard oils first and added liquid oils to them but recently I've added liquid oils to hard oils and put the pan on the stove to melt the hard oils.

Hi everyone, I'm new in this forum and I have a problem with some of my batches. My last 3 batches of soaps have white streaks in them, and some white spots at the bottom and a white layer on the top of the soaps (I zap tested and it's not lye). I read that some eos that aren't stirred enough may cause that but two of my soaps' batches don't have any essential oils in them. one of them is coffee and the other one is unscented. I'd made 6 batches before these and I didn't have the same problem, the only difference between them is that my new batches are superfatted 8%- my old soaps were superfatted 6% Could the 8% superfatting has caused the problem? Thanks Venus