Hello Everyone. My name is Kathryn and I've been making soap for about two years now. I'm totally addicted and drive my long suffering husband crazy with talk about soap, reading about soap, stopping the car to look at other people's soap..... To answer the thermometer question. I've never used a thermometer when making soap. I don't know if this makes me odd, but there you are, every soaper is different. I know the temp of my lye is right when I can put my hand on the side of the glass jug and have it feel very warm but not hot. I've only ever had one volcano effect and I think that was due more to the coffee beans I had just added. The mess! I also have a question. Are there any other soapers here that use the hot process method? I tend to use a cooked in the mold hot process method. I guess I haven't the patience for cold process.
Regards Kathryn Louise Shing wrote:
If you don't use thermometers how do you know when the lye solution is at correct temp to mix everything together? Have you had any volcano effects? Soapblog would be fab I agree. I thought that all soap had to go through the gel phase??? Cheers Louise (Must actually get some other work done today) ha ha - this really is an addiction isn't it -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is sponsored by http://www.soapcraft.co.nz - supplier of raw ingredients.To unsubscribe from this list go to //www.freelists.org/list/soapcraft/ enter your email address and choose unsubscribe. Or you can send an email to soapcraft-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the subject line. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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