[Ameen]

  Dr. Mike, thank you a lot, I’m with you now. Yeah, the overnight resting in your vat is what gets  the saponification reach its term, then the dilution in the usual way.

We are now in a situation where we need to scale up our castile liquid soap from 20  to 40 kgs batchs. We are offering the “gel” castile a.k.a the Moroccan “Beldi soap”, the castile  liquid soap and  the castile bar soap.

Remember  your valuable contribution for the Western Sahara women in the refugee camps?? This is the continuation step of it.

Thank you again Dr. Mike, I now understand your “giving back” philosophy, wish there were more people like you.

Ameen in Algeria
Retired French language teacher

[Ameen]

Att. Dr. Mike, Hi Doc and all readers,

When you wrote “We do not produce a paste, and prefer to produce in liquid form (our batches are around 75 Kg.”,

Do you mean the “paste” a.k.a gel, the result  of  the oil(s) saponification by the KOH doesn’t occur may be because of another developed processing  method or you first you go  through the “gel” phase then dilute then store?

Thanks a bunch in advance for a reply.

Ameen in Algeria
Retired French language teacher

[Ameen]

Hi all wherever you  may be, my name is Ameen from Algeria (North Africa), retired French language teacher and my spouse  is a General practitioner at the main hospital.

We are into handmade soap making (gel soap using KOH, liquid soap from the diluted gel soap, soap bars using NaOH). I have made some simple creams. I am educating myself and now reading Perry’s Beginning Cosmetic Chemistry.

I have exchanged a few mails with late Maurice Hevey through another cosmetic website (RIP Maurice), I am trying to get a better knowledge about simple products formulating.

What drove me to this field is seeing people suffer from using products made of the harshest chemicals on their skin. These products come mainly from China and with the total absence of controles when the goods hit the Algerian borders, this rang a bell in my head and encouraged me to think about offering milder products, made inland hoping to offer some skin comfort to some  of  the people.

I gladly help with any translation to/from French freely and with a smile.
Perry thank you for accepting me in your group and hope to join your course.

Bless you all
Ameen