Moving from SoapmakingFriend
SoapmakingFriend has no way to export a recipe, and its “Copy to clipboard” copies the ingredient names without their amounts. The recipe page itself has everything, so copy that.
Getting a recipe out of SoapmakingFriend
- Open the recipe from “My Recipes”.
- Select the page from “Recipe Totals” down to the end of “Recipe Oils, Fats and Waxes”, and copy it.
- “Print” gives the same page to save as a PDF, if you want a copy to keep.
Bringing it in
- Paste it into the importer and check the list: each oil, its amount, and the oil it was matched to.
- Pick an oil for any line it could not match, then open the recipe in the calculator.
- Check the superfat and the water, then save it. The recipe’s name comes with it when the page had one.
What changes on the way
- SoapmakingFriend calls the water “liquid” and sets it as a liquid to lye ratio. It comes across as the lye concentration it worked out, which gives the same water.
- It works out lye at 99 % purity unless you changed it. That purity comes across with the recipe, so set it to what your lye says.
- The lye can come out a gram or two different. That is not the arithmetic: each calculator holds its own saponification value for some oils. The importer puts the lye your recipe states next to ours, and each oil’s page names where its value comes from.
Launch offer
A year of Maker for bringing them over.
Save 5 recipes through the importer, each with its own name, by 30 June 2027, and claim a year of Maker from your account page.