Cream Soap - re

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If you haven't played with KOH, I would suggest you do a batch of

liquid soap first to get the feel of the process first. KOH rumbles

when you add it to water and it can be a little frightening for

some, one starts thinking it is alive...

Snowdrift also has a recipe for liquid soap and you need to test the

ph at the end as well.

There is a little book by Failor called Cream Soap, you can get it

from Brambleberry I think. Snowdriftfarm also has recipes for cream

soap, but I suggest you decrease the recipe volumes as your first

time will be experimental and the castor one uses quite an amt of

it. This recipe was not completely what I was expecting and I could

not get it to fluff up like I expected.

Failors method is a little different to the Snowdrift one. Failors

method uses super creaming which is whipping it up after a period of

time using stearic etc, you need some way to test the ph as well.

Also there is a group on yahoo for cream soap, one of the ladies

there has built a calculator which can be purchased for a small fee.

I use soapmaker but cannot use it for formulating cream soap, it's a

different ball game altogether. I have talked to them and until they

get someone who is an expert on cream soap they will not make the

addition. I have found a method to work around this though as

soapmaker is my materials inventory, cost and stock controller.

Take note of the possibility of mushroom-soufle effect gone mad when

cooking the soap. Everyone has their theory, but I definetly know

that no amt of stirring will stop it from trying to overflow and if

it does it is still caustic. I have had the joys of this, all over

the stove and down the sides of the pot, what a mess, just like the

thing was possessed. This is caused by heat and heat alone, too much

heat, just like when you rebatch in the microwave the soap puffs up.

Get the pot to a half full sink of cool water and get the pot cooler

and stir like mad. Now, got the soap behaving put it back on the

heat in the double boiler and keep cooking it.

Others use a crock pot, I never have so I don't know about this

method.

Any probs, let me know.

Cheers

Sharon

P.S. If the first batch is not real successful heres what I did with

it, add some eucalyptus, tea tree or pine Eo's some pumice, bit of

ground sea weed, colour light green. Put it in a small bucket and it

lives in my gardening shed, when I want to wash dirt off my hands

from gardening it's there. Excellent stuff even though it doesn't

look real appealing.

> Thanks Sharon, guess I'm going to have to look for a formula for

it.

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