Buttsmom

They look great!!!

Very cool looking and not at all what I pictured by the name

I have been experimenting with a few different recipes with HP and none of my bars seem very hard. Some have been around a week or more. They aren't super soft, but I can still make an impression when I press hard on them. And most of them want to crack right across the center of the bar when you give it a little bend. Here's the recipe I used I thought had the best #'s. Hardness 44 Cleansing 19 Conditioning 51 Bubbly 24 Creamy 29 Iodine 54 INS 165 Coconut Oil 76 20% Castor Oil 5% Lard 50% Olive Oil 25% Superfat @ 7% Goat Milk 12.1 oz Lye 4.6 oz. Any ideas?

If I wait long 5 weeks is there any benefit to HP over CP then? I did them all in HP because I want to know if I'm going to like them now, not a month from now when I would have to start over and wait another month on my 2nd try and so on. I switched to the sunflower because I ran out of of olive and had the sunflower here. I will get more olive and try a bigger batch. What dimensions would I want a box/mold for 3 lbs?

No I'm not new to homemade soap, just mine:) I have used CP/HP from others and have been using melt and pour a lot. Here's the different recipes I have used all in 1 lb batches, since I don't want to make big batches of something I'm not going to like. 45% olive oil 25% lard 25% coconut oil 5% castor oil 30% olive oil 40% lard 25% coconut oil 5% castor oil 25% olive oil 40% lard 25% coconut oil 10% castor oil 25% sunflower oil 50% lard 20% coconut oil 5% castor oil 30% sunflower oil 50% lard 15% coconut oil 5% castor oil

Is coconut oil the only oil that can be drying? I have made 6 batches of Goat's Milk HP and so far everyone of them leaves my skin feeling dry afterwards. I have read not to use too much coconut oil and I have used from 25% down to 15%. All have been super fatted at 7%. In the first few batches I used coconut oil, castor oil, lard and olive oil. Once I ran out of olive oil I started using sunflower oil in the remaining batches.

I have a batch in right now that has been in for an hr and half, think next batch I will try it on high.

Hope it is feeling better today.

Thanks everyone. I will keep doing it on low. And just live with the brown, because vanilla is my favorite.

#1: What temp do you have your crock pot on when you make it? I've been making mine on low and it seems to take forever and it never folds over on itself. #2 In the last batch I made I used a vanilla (can't remember which one) and it turned my soap a dark brown color, I'm perfectly fine with that, but it leaves the dark brown color on the shelf in my shower too. Is that normal when a vanilla darkens the soap?

I did make it just like that last night, while not so bad I won't personally use it up in the shower, I did see where it needed changed. When I made it my GM was slushy/frozen from being in the fridge for a few hrs. I also kept the container I was mixing the gm and lye in an ice bath while I mixed it. Going to try changing the oils next batch.

Thanks I tried it with just adding the whiskey right after I had the lye mixture and oils combined. It didn't turn out bad, but I think the smell is too light, so I was thinking I would try burning it off next time. I also think when I use the whiskey the guy actually makes it will smell different too, right now I'm just practicing with a cheap bottle from the store.

I'm going to try this HP, thoughts on it? 12 oz lard 4 oz Coconut oil 5.28 oz Goat's Milk 2.45 oz Lye

I had a customer come in where I work today and he had been talking to one of the ladies that gets soap from me and he wanted to know if I could make him a Goat's Milk soap with whiskey in it. I have no idea, so I told him I would have to check. So can I?

Thanks, can you recommend a supplier for them?