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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 04 2:27 pm Post subject:
Brilliant

jema
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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 04 2:56 pm Post subject:

Cab wrote:

Good news! My soap guru has promised us a little article on the subject

nice , I don't know how many articles we need to become a genuine resource, but if the promises we have all materialise, we will be getting close

jema

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 04 3:02 pm Post subject:
I haven't done a lot the last few days but hopefully some of the people that I've approached will submit articles, and with the glossary slowly building I'd say we are a resource already. We just need to get more users on board. Does anybody know 16011996? (Just wondered if it was a recommendation or somebody that had found the site of their own accord)

jema
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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 04 4:05 pm Post subject:
Not a name I recognise, so maybe new? jema

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 04 8:11 pm Post subject:
Looking at my John Seymour crafts book you can make Lye from wood ash and then make soap with that and oil. Has anyone tried it?

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Mon Nov 15, 04 9:09 pm Post subject:
You mentioned that you use disposable moulds, but is it really tough on them? I have lots of chocolate moulds that would make fantastic mini-soaps (frogs and fishes and things!) Obviously I use them for chocolate, so they would need washing, but would the soap ruin them? They weren't massively expensive, so I could buy more I needed separate ones - they came from www.homechocolatefactory.com

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 04 10:20 pm Post subject:
Womble, I find that the molds survive repeated use, but sometimes it's a right pig getting the smell of any essential oils out.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 04 10:27 pm Post subject:

Lowlander wrote:

How much of it did you use - you just said a carefully measured quantity, but gave amounts for the other ingredients.

Got the numbers in front of me now. I've lost my back of an envelope from yesterday, though.

Saponification value for coconut ol is 0.190, so that's 19g per 100g of oil. I used 76g for 400g.

Sunflower oil and olive oil both have saponification values of 0.134; I used 400g sunflower, 200g olive oil. That's 80.4g, if my mental arithmetic is right.

So that's a grand total of 156.4g. I can't measure that accurately on my scales, so I measured out between 150 and 155, and relied on that small shortage of lye and allowing my hand to slip a tiny bit with the oil to do the superfatting.

The volume of vitamin e oil in this quantity, added at soft trace, was 2 teaspoons. The amount of essential and scent oils, and spice in the allspice soap, was 'some'

Sarah D

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 04 11:44 pm Post subject:
Thanks for that. I'm about to attack my bucket of wood ash in the very near future................. and have a go.

Bugs

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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 04 9:24 am Post subject:

Tahir wrote:

16011996?

She's a regular on MoneySavingExpert (where they call her 160 for short

). I posted a bit about DS yesterday on MSE's Old Style board (because I think a lot of people on here and on there are interested in the same things) and she's come to have a look. Hope she'll stay around

(and I've already told her so!)

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 04 9:56 am Post subject:

Lowlander wrote:

Thanks for that. I'm about to attack my bucket of wood ash in the very near future.................

and have a go.

I don't know how to go about making soap with wood ash. I would assume that the qualtity you need to add is very different to the qualtity of pure sodium hydroxide. Found any info on that?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Nov 16, 04 11:11 am Post subject:

Bugs wrote:

where they call her 160 for short

Well that's a bit catchier

Sarah D

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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 04 2:19 pm Post subject:
I have instructions in several books for making lye from wood ash; it needs water to drip through it. Am looking for a suitable container just now.

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 04 2:12 pm Post subject:

Cab wrote:

Bugs, I don't know. I'll mull it over and have a look at my soap books.

Did you come across anything (about making liquid soap rather than solid?).

And...would you recommend any one book for a starting point? It's unlikely I'll get around to trying it for some time but it'd be interesting to learn a bit more.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 04 2:57 pm Post subject:
D'oh! Yes, I did find a couple of bits and bobs. No, I don't remember what they were now. I'll look again when I get home and post later.

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