Teach Soap

Just to be clear . Basically, if the product is a liquid (lotion, scrub, body oils, toners, and shampoos) you use fluid ounces to weigh it out on the bottle and it is filled by volume not weight. Whereas, soap, sugar scrub, solid lotions, bubble bars, truffles, and melts are weighed out as new weight.

All need to be by net weight, not volume.

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

Bramble Girl has a great post covering weight vs volume in this post! There are some great links in there as well. Second to last post.

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=13190&p=122330#p122330

Ok. If I have a jar. By weight on a scale a liquid weighs 2.5 oz but it holds 4 oz by volume. I put 2.5 oz on the label because it's by weight. And the same would go for a solid like sugar scrubs?

I will check out the links! Thank you! Soapbuddy and bramble momma!

What I do is I tare the container, then go by the actual weight of the product. So if the jar weighs 2.5 ozs., that's what goes on the label.

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

Thank you very much!!!!!

I suggest that you get this book: Soap & Cosmetic Labeling (How to Follow the Rules and Regulations Explained in Plain English) by Marie Gale.
http://www.lotioncrafter.com/soap-cosme ... eling.html

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Irena
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Linda
I know the voices in my head aren't real, but they sure have some great ideas!

Thank you everyone! I will get that book plus the new one by Anne Marie.

But I have another question. My current soap recipe is coconut, Palm, olive oil, canola, sunflower, Shea and cocoa butter. (28/28/28/5/5/3/3 roughly percentage breakdown). Based on the more experienced soapers out ther. Am I using too many oils? If I decreased the amount of oils and used for example olive coconut and Shea butter. Would this be a better mix?

You don't really need that many oils. I would go with olive coconut, castor and Shea butter.

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

[quote="soapbuddy"]You don't really need that many oils. I would go with olive coconut, castor and Shea butter.[/quote

Thank you! I really appreciate your help!

Don't go by soap calc for olive oil. Even though it's listed as a "soft" oil, it cures out to a very hard bar.

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

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