Teach Soap

When formulating new recipes how much to you heed Soap Calcs "soap qualities" feature in the recipe? If you're not in range do you tweak it or are it's recomendations rubbish?

I take it all with a grain of salt. My recipe doesn't look too good on paper, but it makes a great bar of soap.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

Thanks Soapbuddy!
Would anyone else like to weigh in?

I start by deciding what I'm trying to do... like let's say I want to try meadowfoam oil (highly recommended btw). So I plug that in to a recipe I already like and adjust the amounts until I'm happy.

As long as Soapcalc tells me the soap will be fairly hard with good lather I'm usually happy.
Aside from that I take the exact numbers and recommendations with a grain of salt. You can drive yourself crazy trying to tweak the "perfect" numbers when there is really no way you would ever feel the difference between a 38 and a 42.

Edit - I forgot to add that I use soapcalc more to help me calculate my lye and liquid amounts as well as my superfat than I do to "design" the soap qualities.

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- Mickey!

Hi- I am a newbie , and am wondering if there is a specific "soapcalc" that you are talking about.
Thank you!

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.