Here are the best online lye calculators I've found.
1. New Soap Calc
The folks at Soap Calc continue to improve and streamline their online lye calculator. It continues to be one of the best and most comprehensive online lye calculators available.
2. Summer Bee Meadow
This is THE lye calculator for liquid soap...and a pretty darn good one for bar soap too. It has a great "resize" feature, and allows you to easily print the recipes. Plus, they're a great supplier of soap making supplies!
3. Snowdrift Farm Soap Calculator
Snowdrift farm has also revised their soap calculator. Their's is great because you can easily use it for either liquid, cream or hard soap...and enter in negative lye discounts for the liquid soap formulas! They're a great supplier of ingredients and equipment too.
4. Brambleberry Lye Calculator
Brambleberry's calculator is a great simple calculator - and has been revised to include liquid soap. You can only superfat up to 10% - but that's just fine!
5. Majestic Mountain Sage Lye Calculator
One of the very first online lye calculators was at Majestic Mountain Sage. It got a reputation for having too much water in the recipes, but they've corrected that by now offering a range of water usage in the recipes. They've also updated the calculator for sodium lactate.
6. Suds & Scents Lye Calculator
Another very basic calculator - but this one will calculate in grams or ounces.
7. Miller Soap Soap Recipe Spreadsheets
Miller Soap, one of the oldest soap making websites on the net, has a collection of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to use to create your own recipes. I've used many of them and they are great in that they allow you to customize and save your recipes however you want.
8. Soapmaker Software
If you're really serious about soap making and creating recipes, you'll want to invest (it's not that much) in Soapmaker Software. It's really a great program that does all of your lye calculations and more! Read a full review of the program.
