well, i'll be nice and share the recipe exactly. i have a balance scale with 40g accuracy and i can do cold process with a blender i have sitting here, i think that is the easiest to get right. i think probably actually i want to get gram accurate scales to do it, 40g seems like too much inaccuracy if i want to practise and do small batches that will fit in my blender, which has about 1200ml capacity.

the recipe i'm using will be useful for euros who can get the ingredients off amazon in europe (i am in portugal so spain amazon is what i use).

i'm gonna make myself do it within the week. just have to figure out where i can buy scales from, i think the china shop in sao vicente has it. good excuse to get on the bike and do a day trek back and forth.

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Yea, you definitely need a more accurate scale. I always do it by weight, and the cool thing about the metric system is that 1ml=1gr, so it's easy to figure out amounts. You can go to soapcalc.net to use for formulating an exact recipe. It's pretty simple to figure out.

i have used that site before years ago. soap making is one of my minor obsessions. detergents and commercial soaps are garbage. it bugs me more than most people because i have sensitive skin and autoimmune problems.