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Hello,

I am new to soap making and want to find a good book that will help me understand melt and pour soap making and how much liquids, oils, herbs you can add for successful soap making. For example I saw a apple cider vinegar soap bar and I was curious how you know how much and how many ingridients you can add to melt and pour soaps.


Thank you!

Marie Browning's Melt and Pour Soap Making books are pretty good. Lots of info, projects & pictures.

Here's some more:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm= ... ks&spell=1

Before buying any though, check with your local library. Ours has quite a few of them.

There's also a lot of websites with great info, like http://www.teachsoap.com
Just google melt and pour soap making recipes and you'll get a lot

As for adding oils, a good rule of thumb is 1-2 TB (or 0.5 oz - 1 oz) per lb of mp base. Adding too much can really decrease your lather and/or cause oil seepage when finished.

For herbs, it's usually 1-2 tsp per lb of mp base. But you can add less or more, depending on how you like it.

Adding fruit or vegetables is a no no with mp. You'll probably see it in a lot of recipes, but don't do it. Fruit + MP = Mold

Most herbs will cause discoloration in mp soap. Not a bad thing if you don't mind.

I'm not sure how you could add very much apple cider vinegar to mp without making it too soft. Too much water type liquid will make your mp very soft.

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Apple cider vinegar will neautralize some of the lye. Add too much and it will make your MP soap soft. It can be added at a very small amount for label appeal.

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Thank you, so if I wanted to make an acv soap bar, would it be best to use rebatch soap and if so, then how much liquid would be recommended for that?

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