Batch log
A recipe is a plan. A batch is a thing that happened, and editing the recipe afterwards must never rewrite it.
A free account keeps 10 batches. Maker keeps every one, with cure weigh-ins and photos: $39 a year · or $4.99 a month.
See plansThe batch log belongs to an account, because production records are not something to hang on an unguessable link.
Sign inAsk about a batch
Describe what went wrong with the batch in the form above. The assistant sees its recipe, temperatures, trace, gel and notes, and answers from a knowledge base of soap faults that cites its sources.
Sign in to ask. Every account has a few questions a month.
A line that gave an amount of lye or water was taken out. The lye calculator works those out and shows its working.
Sources
The assistant can be wrong. It never gives lye amounts, and a bar that might be lye-heavy should not be used until you have ruled that out.
This batch took nothing from your stock. Batches logged from the lye calculator take their ingredients from it.
| Ingredient | Taken | Supplier lot | Received | Quantity |
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Packaging
Worked out oldest first: a batch is taken to have used the oldest delivery still on the shelf. If you opened a newer container first, pick its lot and the rest of your stock follows. Ingredients that are not in your stock are not listed.
First in, first out, as the accounting standard for inventories describes it (IAS 2, paragraph 27)
Weigh the same bars every few days from the day you cut them, a few bars or the whole batch, the same each time. The curve shows how much water they have lost and when the loss slows to a crawl.
Adding a weigh-in is part of Maker. The ones here already stay yours to read.
Choose Maker See plansNo card. When the 14 days are up you are back on the free plan, and everything you added stays readable and exportable.
| Weighed | Days since made | Weight | Lost |
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Photos stay private to your account. Each one is made smaller on your device before it is sent, and a batch holds up to 12.
Adding photos is part of Maker. The ones here already stay yours to see.
Choose Maker See plansNo card. When the 14 days are up you are back on the free plan, and everything you added stays readable and exportable.
Batch record
What a batch record needs under cosmetics good manufacturing practice: every ingredient with its supplier lot and weight, how it was made, what was checked, the batch code, and whether the batch was accepted. Print it before you make the batch and fill it in as you go, or afterwards from what you logged.
EU: Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Articles 8 and 11 · US: FDA draft guidance on cosmetic good manufacturing practice (2013)
Nothing recorded yet. Record a batch the day you make it, while you still remember the temperatures.
| Code | Batch | Made | Ready | Bars | Cost | How it went |
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