Add additives list
One feature I would LOVE to see added is an Additives section within each recipe. It would be great to add ingredients such as kaolin clay, sodium lactate, colloidal oatmeal, activated charcoal, sugar, salt, micas/colorants, milks, etc., with the option to enter the amount in grams, ounces, or as a percentage of oils.
Even better if additives could be connected to inventory and recipe costing, so the app can calculate the true cost of each batch and automatically deduct them from stock when a batch is made.
That would make this an amazing all-in-one app for small soap businesses. I would absolutely love to see this feature in a future update!
Response from developer
Thank you - and good news: this is exactly what version 1.7 is, and it is out now. Every recipe has an Additives section. Kaolin, sodium lactate, colloidal oatmeal, activated charcoal, sugar, salt, micas and milks, entered in grams, ounces or percent of oils. Milks, coffee and other liquids dose against the water they replace rather than the oils, so the lye math stays right. They are wired into inventory and costing, exactly as you described. A batch shows its true cost per bar, and the amounts come off your stock the moment you pour. You can add your own ingredients too, with supplier and unit cost.
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Response from developer
Thank you for reporting this, and we're sorry for the frustration. You found a genuine defect: the unit preference was saving correctly, but the calculator and recipe screens were not reading it. Nothing you tried could have resolved it. This is fixed in the next update, where grams, ounces and pounds carry through the batch size, every oil, the water and the lye. That update also adds an expanded oil catalogue including canola, an additives section for clays, sodium lactate, charcoal, micas and milks, printable recipe and batch sheets, fuller fragrance tracking with supplier and IFRA limits, costing that covers additives, fragrance, packaging and labels, custom ingredients, and recipe versioning. We'd welcome the opportunity to earn a second look. Thank you!
Missing Oils?
Response from developer
You're not missing anything - canola isn't in the current catalogue. It's added in the next update, along with corn, cottonseed, peanut, wheat germ and about twenty more. If you need it before then, canola's saponification value is 0.133 NaOH (0.186 KOH), so you can work the lye by hand in the meantime. Sorry for the inconvenience.
