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By David Fisher, About.com Guide to Candles & Soap since 2005

Best Lye Calculators for Soap Making

Sunday December 31, 2006
calculatorWhile not quite a "Top 10 list for 2006", several of the websites that have online lye calculators did significant redesigns in 2006. So I've compiled a "Top Lye Calculators for Soap Making". If you're creating your own soap recipes from scratch, or even if you're using a recipe from a book or website, it's VERY important to run your recipes through a lye calculator to make sure that your ratios of water, oils and lye are correct. Doing so will help insure that your batch of soap will come out just right. Not doing so, and you might as well be making soap out in a kettle in the back yard - and we all remember the reputation that that lye soap got! From basic one-page sites, to software packages, to complicated comprehensive calculators...you're bound to find one you'll like.

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January 3, 2007 at 8:29 am
(1) naohmonk says:

The Open Soapmaking Wiki has several resources for lye calculators, sap tables, how tos glossary and lists of soapmakers and organizations. Please visit and if you are a soapmaker, share your expertise!

Open Soapmaking Wiki - Saponaceo.us

http://saponaceo.us

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