This table is for those of you who want to get a bit more scientific in soap making or just want to check and see if the person who created the recipe you're planning on using knew what they were doing. Each fat has its own saponification value, or "SAP Value." Each fat requires a different amount of lye to...
Soapmaking-introduction
The first steps taken
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Determining your soap's pH
The dictionary defines pH as "A measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution calculated as the common logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration in moles per cubic decimeter of solution and numerically equal to 7 for neutral solutions. pH increases with increasing alkalinity and decreases with increasing acidity. " Acids and bases are opposites, on... -
Soapmaking-introduction
Soap making is not hard to do if you are armed with just a little bit of information. Soap is the result of combining fats with a caustic agent such as lye using water as a catalyst. It is possible to turn out a nice batch of soap with simple things that can be purchased at most grocery stores. Read...