Formulation Assistant Skill

The Soap Formulation skill turns your AI agent into an expert soap maker. It can generate recipes, troubleshoot issues, and provide detailed chemical explanations.

Features

• Recipe Generation: Create complete recipes for Cold Process (CP), Hot Process (HP), and Liquid Soap (KOH).
• Troubleshooting: Diagnose issues like DOS (Dreaded Orange Spots), soft bars, or acceleration.
• Substitution: Suggest oil substitutes based on fatty acid profiles.
• Validation: Check existing recipes for safety and quality issues.
• Calculation: Precisely calculate lye and water amounts using soap-calc's verified database.

Workflow

When you ask for a recipe, the agent follows this standard workflow:

1. Consult Reference: Checks expert formulation guidelines for the requested soap type (e.g., "gentle baby soap").
2. Validate Inputs: Checks your requested oils against the database.
3. Calculate: Uses soap-calc to determine exact lye and water weights.
4. Export: Generates a detailed Markdown recipe sheet.

Example Usage

Creating Recipes

"Make me a gentle, palm-free bastille soap recipe with lavender."

"Formulate a shaving soap recipe with high stable lather."

Troubleshooting

"Why is my soap batch soft and sticky after 4 weeks?"

"What can I substitute for palm oil in this recipe?"

Using Inventory

"Make a balanced bar soap recipe using only the oils in my inventory."

Safety First

The skill prioritizes safety: * It will never guess lye amounts. It always uses the soap-calc engine. * It warns about lye safety safeguards (gloves, goggles). * It flags unsafe recipes (e.g., lye-heavy or dangerously high cleansing) during validation.