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Personally I use a big glass measuring/gravy cup to mix the lye in, and a big stainless steel pot for the oils.

All your essential oils, scents,clays and superfatting oils are added after the...

This is a tallow soap I have made and like allot, however this is a bar soap not a shaving soap.

44 oz. beef tallow
20 oz. Hemp Oil
20 oz. coconut oil
12 oz. lye crystals(sodium hydroxide)
32...

Yeah see iv never ton into the detailed chemistry side of soap, with bath soaps I've never had to. But the tallow should counteract the softness of the KoH to an extent. Castor oil also helps with a...

As I have never added stearic acid to any soaps I have made, I don't know and cant really comment on it. I'f it was me Id just make a small batch to test It with a very small amount. You would have...

Also with your lye solution, you will want about %5 to %10 less sodium hydroxide then fats, so that there is a portion of super fats lefts over from the process that have not been saponified. A soap...

I have never bought steric acid for soap so I can't really comment, stearic acid content is made from the saponification process of fats, and fats like tallow as said above have a high content, which...

Sorry, I only read the firs repost haha! As the guy above says, stearin acid content should be high for what your after. Clays can be tricky, it's pretty much a matter of trial and error with them....

I've been making soap for years. Drop the olive oil content down to nothing, or %5 max and replace the remainder of the olive oil with beef tallow. Olive kills lather in anything other then a small...