Soap Making 101

[Britesea]

Ha! Krisac, you must live on the wrong side of the Cascades! Here in Klamath County we get plenty of sunny days, even in winter!

 

[krisac]

Oh yeah, Junction City by Eugene. They don't call us Ducks for nothing

 

[krisac]

Okay help me out here, (and yes I have not given up on goats milk) I punched 16oz crisoc 12oz gm into the Beee calculator and gor 2.09 lye and 4.9 water
I punched 16 oz Soybean (beacuse they didn't have crisco and thats what they reccomeneded) and got back 4-6 oz of fluid and 2.06 oz lye.

I'm confused. big surprise there

 

[Damummis]

Okay help me out here, (and yes I have not given up on goats milk) I punched 16oz crisoc 12oz gm into the Beee calculator and gor 2.09 lye and 4.9 water
I punched 16 oz Soybean (beacuse they didn't have crisco and thats what they reccomeneded) and got back 4-6 oz of fluid and 2.06 oz lye.

I'm confused. big surprise there

Now I am the one confused. Why are you using 12oz of goats milk? Try substituting your water amount for the goats milk or half the water amount with water and goats milk.
So it should be 4.9oz goat milk
or
2.4 oz water and 2.5oz milk

 

[krisac]

I think I am still really confused on these calculators apparently. I'm still confused about how much oil to fluid to water to lye amounts (fluid being the goats milk) or fluid being both the ater and goat's milk. so I don't know how to punch it in. I know I know, STOP WITH THE GOATS MILK ALREADY! Right? my redneck stubbornness is showing huh? the first batch that although disgusting is nice soap because the amount of lye in vs the amount fluid was basically nil. the calculator never facotored in the goats milk. Or so I thought...because I thought on the Bee calculator I entered it right and that gives me almost 17oz of fluid to the lye. Does anyone know of a calculator that lets you factor in your amount of fluid if you want to goats milk?

 

[Damummis]

Here is where I am not understanding, it seems that you want to add extra liquid. Use your water amount as the milk amount. If a recipe calls for 8oz of water, use 8oz of milk instead of the water. Or, any combination of milk and water as long as it adds up to 8oz.

Try soapcalc instead.

 

[Farmfresh]

Just punch in the oil amount. The lye will be given to you and so will the amount of water. If you want to use goat's milk just use it instead of the water. Or like Damummis suggested, half of the water amount and make the other half goat's milk.

The goat's milk is NOT an additional liquid amount.

 

[krisac]

the second one was from soap calc. where is just gave me a fluid amount. That's where I was confused, because I had entered the amount of goats milk into the bee meadow one and came up with same amount of water and lye as if the goats milk didn't exist. So I will try what you are suggesting probably half and half (sorry I can't help myself) I did get to see a good video I found somewhere on you tube showing turning it into trace. Thant helped a lot. Thanks for putting up with all this craziness. Off to take sick husband to doctor.

 

[krisac]

Thanks Gals, or Guys, it's starting to make sense. I'm really looking forward to my class. :bun
Kristina

 

[aggieterpkatie]

krisac, I'm still working on getting perfectly smooth wax paper in the mold.

And when you use Soapcalc, do the following (and I just learned this not long ago, before I hated soapcalc).

Step 1: Go to blue # 2 and change the weight to oz.
Step 2: Go to the list of drop-down oils. Pick the oil you want to use. Click on it to highlight it.
Step 3: Go to blue # 6 and click the red + to add the oil to your list.
Step 4: Go to the columns to the right and click so the oil measurement is oz
Step 5: Repeat steps 2-4 if you have more than one oil
Step 6: Click "calculate recipe"
Step 7: Click "view recipe"

You'll see the water comes to 6.08 oz and the lye comes to 2.09 oz. If you want to use goat milk, you can either replace the water completely or combine the two so they equal 6.08 oz. In this calculator you don't add the liquid, the recipe will calculate the lye and the liquid for you.