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I've made the soap per the recipe with split salts and tallow. I'm looking for that thread now.

[oh wait, this must be it.]

The soap is amazing. I have a few years supply now.

My ship came in. I've been able to procure tallow and stearic and will be making a batch soon enough. Still never found stearic acid and lye at the same place-for combined shipping. oh well. ...

there are 1000 places on the web that teach cold process/hot process soap making. pick any. then twist up the recipe to make a shave soap from info you'll find here and very few other places. esp...

WHOOHOO! now we're getting somewhere! thanks

The whole point of which, i am told is to take advantage of the _foaming_ action from the KOH but yet to keep the puck from becoming too soft-as full KOH saponified soap would likely be.

From mine...

this is exactly what i'm doing. this is your chance to give it a go at improving your shaving soap-as you and too many have found, it's not just bath soap and with clay and a manly scent.

the...

No as i unnerstand it, the Stearic Acid IS a saponfiable fat. It is part of your fats whole.

I have zero interest in additional components beyond the excess fats (and some clay) left over from the...

that's basic soap-making. superfatting or "lye" discount.

not what i asked. i asked about using proportional amounts of BOTH salts (KOH, and NaOH) at the same time in ONE recipe. as per the...

oh lookie, i found some more information wrt stearic acid and now the "iodine content" section of all those charts makes some sense. from Wiki:

Oleic acid undergoes the reactions of carboxylic...

there is no olive oil in the recipe i list two posts above. would you care to look at it and maybe comment on the stearic acid or KOH content. thanks. also i'm testing next batch with/without the...

too much enthusiasm for the room maybe? mods don't esplain. i did say i was "done" and was going to "lurk mode" in ref to whatever. but i'm not about to lurk where i can't can't post.

(don't...

okay allright already, i'll tempt fate by posting up on the subject what got me canned elsewheres.

First, i'm no expert on soap-making (yet), but an extreme DIY-type with some technical knowledge,...