First ever batch, cut it at 24 hours and tried a sliver at about ten days because I couldn't wait. It felt drying and a bit squeaky, and left my hands tight. Recipe was a fairly standard beginner one with 30% coconut.…
Standard recipe I've made a dozen times, 35% olive, 30% coconut, 25% palm, 10% castor, 33% lye solution. Blended to light trace, added 30g of a new floral fragrance oil, and it went from pourable to a stiff mash in…
Batch of six bars curing on a wire rack in a spare room. At about week three, four of them developed a fine white powdery crystalline layer, mostly on the top face, patchy rather than even. It brushes off with a dry…
Recipe was 60% olive, 20% coconut, 20% shea, 5% superfat, water at 38% of oils. Cut cleanly at 24 hours. Five weeks on the rack in a dry room and they still dent easily under a thumbnail and feel slightly waxy. They…
Making about one 1kg batch a month for family and friends, no plans to sell. Deciding between a silicone loaf mould at around £18 and building a wooden box mould with freezer paper liners for roughly the same in…