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So it must be a blend of essential oil with fragrance oil. (that's what the ingredients red on the bottle "essential oil fragrance")
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I know what essential oils are, and I know that fragrance oils are pretty much synthetic oils that can be made to smell like anything. Today I ran across "essential oil fragrance", now I am confused.
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I suppose it's been long enough since I made that OO soap, I should try using it, so I could see and understand all this stuff myself. Tomorrow will be exactly one month since I made my first soap, I think I am going to lock myself in the bathroom and try out my soaps (others are HP and CPOP, so I can try them all).
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I'll have to try your 40-PO/30-OO/30-CO soap. I just made a batch with these oils a couple of days ago, but in a different proportion 20-PO/50-OO/30-CO (I think I got the recipe from millersoap), waiting for it to cure. Now, you say olive oil makes soft soap. I did make one batch of CP out of 100% olive oil (extra virgin, if it matters), it's been a little over 3 weeks, and this soap is hard as rock! Am I missing something?
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After 4 plain unscented uncolored batches, I am ready to try something new. Of course ordering fragrance and dyes online will take forever, and I am too impatient to try something new. Would colors and scents designed for melt and pour soap work for CP soap (the ones you can buy at Michael's). Can I use food vanilla flavoring for scent (I have natural and colorless versions)? Any other suggestions on colors and scents?
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I wanted to buy some cocoa butter and shea butter, but realized there were 2 versions of each (refined and natural). Is one preferred over the other?
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Same brand, same store, except mine was almost 6 bucks for 16 oz.
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does it stick to the soap more then the freezer paper?
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It came out fine for me.
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Does the fact that some oils are hydrogenated in the shortening, make any difference in the soap versus regular oils? Also I have no understanding of properties of oils, like "linoleic oil doesn't make good soap", is there info somewhere on here, or some website that explain that kind of stuff? I only have 4 batches of soap under my belt, and, my cp soap is not even cured yet.
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shortening doesn't exactly specify how much of each oil is used, so what would be be best way to calculate lye?
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My mold is on crack, and it has monkey brains in it...
Reg replied to Reg's topic in General Soap Making
It feels oily when I press on it, hope that will change in a day or two. I had my oven preheated to 170 degrees, put the soap in for one hour, then shut it off, and let the soap sit there overnight (I was following these instructions: http://www.soapcrafters.com/recipes_cpop_soap_making ) -
My mold is on crack, and it has monkey brains in it...
Reg replied to Reg's topic in General Soap Making
and so I cut it...
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What would be the favorable ingredients in shortening? The can I have lists these: soybean oil, fully hydrogenated palm oil, partially hydrogenated palm and soybean oils, mono and diglycerides, TBHQ and citric asid. I haven't made soap from it yet (not sure how to calculate lye for it either since it's both soybean and palm oils). I have seen one soap calc that had "old crisco" and "new crisco", but I don't know if what I have is considered old or new.
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I did my first batch of CPOP, and my mold started pulling away on one side. The final product looks like monkey brains, and it does have some tiny bubbles (like somebody in another thread had too). It's been 24 hours since the soap has been poured in the mold. If I press lightly on the soap (to test for hardness), my finger gets oily from the soap. So is this how it all supposed to look like? Comments, suggestions, anything... (the soap is 50% olive, 30% coconut, 20% palm)
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Thanks!
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I want to make a batch of CPOP soap, but was not sure if it's OK to line the wooden mold with freezer paper. I know you are not supposed to bake with it, but I am using lower temperature then regular baking (170 for 1 hour, then shut off, and let cool for 10-12 hours). So am I safe, or should I use something else for lining the mold?
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I am new to soapmaking (only made 3 batches), so I keep thinking up new questions every minute. I have seen a lot of soap recipes in the books that had soybean oil as an ingredient, so it seemed like a widely used oil. But if it doesn't make that great of a soap, I won't even bother with it at all.
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Is anybody concerned about use of non organically grown soybean oil? As far as I know pretty much all soybeans are genetically engineered to withstand a spray of roundup. Which means it is sprayed with roundup. Buying orgranic obviously a lot spendier then buying regular oil. Just wondering what does everybody think? Cottonseed oil is of a question to me too. I don't know much about it, but basically cotton is grown to collect the fibers (not for food), oil is just a byproduct of the industry, so it is probably sprayed with pretty potent stuff too.
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Thank you everybody for posting your replies, keep them coming, this is all good info (at lest for me ). Thank you for such detailed explanation! I needed that. Did you ever do swirling with CPOP? I just wonder if the clolors bleed together? Thanks for the links, off to read now...
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I did wear gloves. But when I ran my gloved finger inside the glass, it would squeek at the top, and feel slippery and not squeek toward the bottom.
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Thanks!
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As I was washing the mesuring cup that I used for lye, as well as the thermometer, they all felt slippery where they were in cotact with lye. After washing it repeatedly with dish soap, they still felt slippery (the rest of the glass was "squeeky" clean). Why is that, and do I need to be concerned about it?
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I was reading "soapmakers companion" book this morning, and it said,"Cold-process soaps lose their caustic properties only after weeks of curing..." I thought caustic meant corrosive enough to eat throug things. Maybe she means the lye still keeps reacting with oil over time, even though not much of it is left after a couple of days?
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I had a coupon to Borders so I got the "Natural Soap Book" by Susan Cavitch; then I went to Half Price Books today, and got "Soapmakers Companion" for $6.98, and it's brand new - score!
