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Adventures in soapmaking
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Curiosity never hurt anyone. It was stupidity that killed the cat.
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Originally posted by QuantaFille View PostIf the soap you made was too caustic because it was lye heavy, all that means is that you didn't use enough fat/oil. If all the lye is used up in the saponification process and you have a very small amount of fat/oil left over, you should have a very mild soap. Harshness/mildness has more to do with what oils you use and not so much the pH. Soap made correctly usually has a pH level around 9 or 10, which is not enough to burn you especially since it is diluted and rinsed off the skin right away. I should also mention that if the TA used paper test strips to check the pH, those don't work for soap anyway. It really messes with the dyes those are made with and you'll get wildly inaccurate results.
I regret having mentally-lost most of those 2 semesters of organic chem. It was an annoyingly difficult class, but still pretty darned fascinating, too. In a semester filled with 18 credits (IIRC), I was bound to lose 90% of what I learned during those 3 months :p
ps. I did try my banana soap, and yes, it wasn't the greatest. Not terrible, but not anything I wanted on my face more than once :)Last edited by Whateverman; 06-17-2020, 04:27 PM.
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