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What ingredients have you put into it and what are the ratios? I leave mine to dry for at least two weeks. I make them with olive oil and caustic soda only. Sometimes coconut oil instead of olive oil.
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[ARCHIVED] Jay 1y ago

I went by the recipe on the bottle of lye I bought. I may have done my math wrong though.

I used

1 lb fat

2 oz lye

1 cup water

So about 1:8 fat to lye

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Al-Andalusi 1y ago

I use this calculator: https://calc.mendrulandia.es/. Note that you can change the language settings.

It tells you a prediction of cleanliness, conditioning, bubbles, persistence, hardness, solubility, drying, etc., based on the ingredients and quantities that you have used.

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[ARCHIVED] Jay 1y ago

So according to this, I used about a quarter cup too much water. So it'll probably just take a lot longer to dry out. But I'm glad my fat to lye ratio wasn't too off.