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PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 4:52 am 

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Hi all,
I stumbled across soap making about 6 weeks ago. Some molds I have made have been successful others have not. A bit depressing when some soaps come out sticky from the mold. Is this normal. They seems easy to cut, quite smooth but will they set hard? Need lots of advice.


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PostPosted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 1:04 pm 
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Welcome! What was your recipe? Depending on the oils/butters you used, some recipes can come out sticky. Did you run the recipe through a lye calculator? How much did you superfat?

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 2:43 pm 
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You have to superfat. Otherwise there is a chance that the soap could end up lye heavy and very harsh on your skin.
BrambleBerry has a lye calculator http://www.brambleberry.com/pages/Lye-Calculator.aspx
and so does The Sage https://www.thesage.com/calcs/LyeCalc.html
Some people superfat at 5%. I prefer 7-8% as anything below that my skin finds very drying.

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