Tag: Cold Process Soap
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4 Ways to Reduce Fragrance Oil Acceleration in Cold Process Soap
Hello Handmakers! There has been quite a few inquiries on how one can deal with fast (aka accelerating) fragrance oils in cold process soap so here’s a quick post sharing some tips on how can you do so 🙌 Note: Each fragrance oil is made of different ingredients which means that each unique blend has…
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Cold Process Dish Soap Using Premium Extra Red Palm Oil
Hi Crafters! We’ve recently included a new carrier oil to our catalogue and are excited to share the gorgeous orange-red color your cold process soap bar will naturally gain by using our Premium Extra Red Palm Oil. Our Premium Extra Red Palm Oil is also known as Unrefined Palm Oil. It is rich in carotenes,…
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What is Sodium Lactate and How to Use it
Hi Crafters! Some newbie soap makers have come up to us, inquiring about sodium lactate, how they can incorporate it to their soaps and whether it is actually a crucial component or not. So, for today, we’re sharing what we know on this liquid salt 😊 During the cold process soap making process, Sodium Lactate…
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Testing Every Craftiviti Fragrance Oil for Acceleration in Cold Process Soap
Hi Crafters! Throughout the years, we’ve received many inquiries about our fragrance oils and among those inquiries involve whether such and such fragrance oil will cause acceleration or not in cold process soap. Thus, we took some time to test out all 88 of our fragrance oils and create this chart in hope that it’ll…
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Basic Cold Process Soap Recipe
Hi Crafters! For those who are looking to try cold process soap making at home, we’ve a basic cold process soap recipe (click here to read about Cold Process Soap) here today for you to try out! What you’ll need: 200g of Refined Coconut Oil 450g of Pomace Olive Oil 350g of Refined Palm Oil…
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5 Common Cold Process Soap Mistakes and How to Avoid or Fix Them
Making soaps from scratch and having full control over the ingredients can be exhilarating, but there are also risks and problems you can come across. At Craftiviti, we often hear from our customers about the issues they face while making their own cold process soaps at home, and have come to notice that there are…
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Cure in Candle Making VS Cure in Soap Making
If you’re new to the candle making and/or soap making scene, you might have stumbled across the term ‘cure’ in both crafts. However, despite it being the same word, the exact definition of this term is different according to the craft it is used for. For Candle Making… ‘Cure’ refers to the chemical process that…
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Get to Know: Cold Process Soap
Cold process soap is known as ‘natural soap’. It is made by combining oils and sodium hydroxide, through the cold process. This cold process denotes the lacking presence of heat when making soap. The mixture of sodium hydroxide with a type of liquid (henceforth known as ‘lye’, as it is defined that ‘lye’ is an…
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