The first batch of hot process soap I cooked climbed out of the crockpot like rising dough and slid toward the edge of the counter before I caught it with a spatula.
Which oats you choose decides everything about an oatmeal bar. Colloidal oatmeal is ground so fine it dissolves, giving a silky, soothing bar for sensitive
A recipe written for cold process does not carry over cleanly to hot process, and the reason is water. Hot process cooks the soap, and some of the water
You poured a loaf, it cured, and now you have to cut it. How many bars will it give, and what will each one weigh? Cut too thick and you get fewer, heavier
Soap recipes are shared in percentages because percentages travel between batch sizes without changing the soap. But you cannot weigh a percentage.
Sodium lactate for a harder bar, clay for slip, oats for a gentle scrub, a spoon of honey for label appeal. Additives make a soap recipe your own, but
You know what a batch of soap costs you in oils and lye, but that is not the number you need. What you need is the cost of a single bar, and then a price
You have a soap recipe that works, and now you need it in a different size. Maybe the mould changed, maybe you are doubling for a market, maybe you want
A bar of cold-process soap weighs more on the day you unmould it than it will on the day you sell it. Over the cure, water evaporates and the bar shrinks and hardens.
After you cook a batch of liquid soap, what comes out of the pot is a thick amber soap paste, not the pourable soap you actually use. That paste has to