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shunt "I agree with DeeAnna, its more likely rivers than separation. Has nothing to do with masterbatching but your water content and cooling. The larger the batch the more heat generated so the recommendations above should help greatly. Since I started using a 33% lye concentration I rarely...

DeeAnna "If the soap is firm and relatively consistent except for the color variation, which is what I'm seeing in your photos, it is indeed what people call "glycerin rivers" or more correctly "mottling" or just "rivers."" ok maybe this is what it is then BUT see my responses below "A 50 lb...

no i didnt masterbatch the oils, but the oils were different temps when i added to the mixing pot. i heat up the CO and the PO and add the OO at room temp, BUT i have done it this way for a couple years now and this crocodile effect never happened before. thanks Lin

lsg "Are you using titanium dioxide in your soap?" yes the mica coloring has titanium dioxide in it dixie"I am also wondering if you mixed your purple color in water before adding it?" no but i did mix the color in the oils before i added the lye Lin "Now to me that looks like a Separation...

hi soap friends, i make 50 lb block of cold processed soap and cut them into logs , then into bars i use: 40% EVOO 30% 76deg Coconut Oil 30% RBD Palm Oil 2.5% fragrance .005% mica coloring lye most of my batches come out uniform color. but my last two batches turned out weird and i have no...

i take my shavings and scraps and put them in sealed bucket as soon as i cut them, while they are still wet. then when i am ready, make half a batch of regular soap, and the mix in the scraps and shavings in the fresh batch. add fragrance then i make sure the WHOLE batch goes ito full gel phase...

ok thanks, im gonna make a lot of lye so i can be ready for a future order. i was thinking of adding the SL to each jug then storing for later, or i could just add the SL RIGHT before i make the soap. i plan on having 50-60 gallons of pre-mixed lye water and it will save a LOT of hours of prep...

for those that masterbatch their lye, can the cooled lye solution be stored with sodium lactate in it, or do they add the sodium lactate right before making the soap batch?

thank you shunt, Susie, and IrishLass! Vitamin E is VERY expensive, and i will be saving money now thanks to your information! IrishLass, I have been thinking about trying sodium Lactate in my big 50lb molds , because the current soap recipe sticks to my mylar liners, and ruins too many bars...

hi, i have read that Sodium Lactate is a natural preservative. do you think you could replace the vitamin E in CP soap with Sodium Lactate, to prevent the oils from going rancid?

ok, my 2nd batch of "embed" confetti soap this time i only used cut up chunks of scrap soap, no shredding. green tea and spearmint base and scraps i think i like it better than the mix of scraps and chunks. my next experiment will be ONLY scraps...

Seawolfe, thank you :-) I MUCH prefer "embeds" as well. I have no interest in rebatching because #1, its a lot more work than embeds, and #2, it does not look as good to me either...

confetti - chunk soap finished product hi everyone , i finished my first "confetti/chunk" batch thanks to your input! i made the batch using the same soap as the scraps (vanilla buttermilk bar) i shredded most of the scraps and also added some small and medium chunk scraps to experiment with...

thank you Irish Lass, VERY helpful and found more using that search as well. I will try to post pics of the finished product when im done :-)

Awesome Shari, Thank you! Would love to see a pic or link to how they look? If it works well, i may do this to all my soaps and reduce the prices a little :-) Great, thanks tixicon, for the reply. I would be grating them probably, at least initially... dixiedragon, beautiful! Thanks...

Has anyone tried to just throw in scraps of old cold processed soap (ends and waste) right into a new batch (mold) of cold processed soap? I have heard or "re-batching" scraps, but i am thinking of trying to make a new batch, mix and trace, then add the scraps right into the mold. I do large...