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Lye Calculators - Create Your Own Soap Recipe Safely

It's imperative when creating your own soap recipes to use a lye calculator. Even when using someone else's recipe, or a recipe from a book, ALWAYS run the recipe through a lye calulator.
Lye Calculators
If you're creating your own soap recipes from scratch, and 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.

Here are the best online lye calculators I've found.

Lye Calculators
Lye Calculators for Cold Process Soap
New & Improved Soap Calc
The folks at Soap Calc have made a great thing even better with the new and improved Soap Calc. Plus there's lots of great soap making information like oil qualities, oil makeups and equipment lists.
Snowdrift Farm
Lye Calculator for solid, liquid or cream soap
Excel Lye Calculators from Miller Soap
Excel spreadsheet Lye Calculators

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