Customizing soap recipes is one of the many advantages of making products from scratch. There’s a lot of joy in experimenting and finding the perfect combination of ingredients that make your skin feel great. TheBramble Berry Lye Calculatormakes it easy to do just that. You can find it near...
Start with premade Melt & Pour soap. Melt & Pour is premade glycerine based soap that you simply melt and pour into a mold. It can be melted in a double boiler or microwave. Great supervised fun with young children.
The scent and color will carry through in the final product, but it’s less noticeable with a low usage rate and strong scent likepeppermint essential oil. Find out how much scent to add to your recipe with theFragrance Calculator. Babassu Oil We’re big fans ofcoconut oilhere at Bramble...
Anne-Marie Faiola is one of my favorite soapmakers, and I just loved her bookSoap Crafting. I think Anne-Marie does a great job creating easy recipes and experiments that beginners can try and also inventing advanced recipes and techniques for more experienced soapmakers. In her latest book,P...
Don’t substitute oils without using a lye calculator to re-calculate the lye amount Keep a journal or book of formulas, & take notes of every batch Once you use pots, pans or even the immersion blender for soap making, don’t use them for anything else (specially cooking!). Keep those...
I am gonna substitute the Shea butter with Cocoa butter, I put it in the soap calculator to get the right lye amount. It said I need 268 g of water. In your recipe it says 100g water and 100 g goat milk. What do you think, can I just go ahead with your weight suggestions?
how to use a lye calculator (it's not as hard as it seems, promise!) And for those who feel they need some extra hand-holding, her complete package also includes access to her popularsoapmaking video courseto help you level up your soapmaking skills. ...
(taking water and lye into the calculation). Adding more means your soap won’t lather well. That means that if your oils, water, and lye equal 100 ounces, no more than two ounces of beeswax should be used. An online lye calculator such asSoapcalcallows you to input all ingredients ...
The bars this dish soap recipe makes are pure white, very hard, and very brittle. Though you can pour the soap batter into a mold for traditional bars, pouring the soap into ramekins is even better. They’re perfect little containers that both store the soap and give you a surface to ...
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