Gowri
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I like all types of soaps… I have a crazy collection of all colored and beautiful smelling soaps!especially hand made..they are unique and mostly gentle on the skin.
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Very Nice soaps Belassi !
Note that I make soaps out of hobby. As georgetedder said, if we buy in bulk it is actually pretty cheap, good for high volume production. And again, melt and pour cannot compete with the mainstream soap, but they are not bad either.
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You can check the links I posted. When compared by kilo, the
melt and pour is still $8 less. I get what you are trying to say and I don’t deny
your statement about the quality of melt and pour. But the process and
ingredients are the same for both the soaps.I would love to have a look at the type of soaps you make, if
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Melt and pour soap is a hot process soap with some kind of an
alcohol (ethanol,
isopropyl alcohol, propylene glycol), Glycerin and sugar water solution added
at the gel stage.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nw4CBN_RC0
I buy melt and pour from SFIC. Nice quality soap, have no
other surfactants added to the mix. It is not as effective as cold process /hot
process soap. But mild enough and cheap! I buy the base from amazon where a
pound of soap is not more than $10, which brings the cost $0.625/Oz. But if I have
to buy very good quality cold process soap, it will be around $1.5/Oz.Ref for melt and pour:
Ref for cold process soap:
http://soaptopia.com/soaps
( I bought this from wholefood at $1.5/Oz)https://www.etsy.com/listing/223557769/all-natural-orange-soap-handmade-soap?ref=related-7
My final thoughts –Melt and pour - It is what it is, not super-efficient
to be used as soap but can be used as embeds in the soap and make soap making more
interesting and fun. Will I still use melt and pour? Yes, but just for fun and
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Hmmm… you are right, it dosent foam.It functions “like” a soap.But the ingredients for the melt and pour and cold process looks just the same..i am not able to spot the difference.
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WOW!! Thank you so much Bobzchemist. That was a very valuble advice,else i would have spoiled the entire batch of soap.
I tried adding Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate (SLL) at 5%.It was mild and gave a good lather.But the texture of the soap felt like a solid rock. And then i added Decyl Glucoside ( i dont remember the % but it is less than 10%) which did not impart any mildness to the soap.I was thinking of adding Panthenol to give some skin loving properties (at 2% ).correct me if am wrong.