Spiceandsoap
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Hello,
I've made my second batch of soap, and it hasn't behaved the same as the first. I don't have enough experience to know if this is part of the normal range of variation or what.
Its been 2 days since I put my soap in the mold, I went to pop it out and its still very squidgy... for lack of a better description. Its not liquid, but parts are not fully soil. Parts of the bottom are like a stick of butter that has been left out an hour, they keep their shape, but any touch and they deform.
I manhandled the loaf back into the mold (with the bottom now on the top, exposed to air, since that was the least solid of the loaf. Is that the best course of action? Is this a case of me being impatient, or did something un-salvageable happen?
Recipe:
Coconut Oil- 270 g
Palm oil - 270 g
Olive Oil- 270 g
Castor Oil 90 g
Lye 125g
Liquid 326g (Used cooled mint tea)
EO- Peppermint 8g
Other Notes:
Combined with stick blender when oil and lye water were both at btwn 40-45C.
Using silicone mold. Wrapped mold in towel when letting cool.
Used a (cleaned) milk carton as an overflow mold- very, very sticky soap resulted.
I've made my second batch of soap, and it hasn't behaved the same as the first. I don't have enough experience to know if this is part of the normal range of variation or what.
Its been 2 days since I put my soap in the mold, I went to pop it out and its still very squidgy... for lack of a better description. Its not liquid, but parts are not fully soil. Parts of the bottom are like a stick of butter that has been left out an hour, they keep their shape, but any touch and they deform.
I manhandled the loaf back into the mold (with the bottom now on the top, exposed to air, since that was the least solid of the loaf. Is that the best course of action? Is this a case of me being impatient, or did something un-salvageable happen?
Recipe:
Coconut Oil- 270 g
Palm oil - 270 g
Olive Oil- 270 g
Castor Oil 90 g
Lye 125g
Liquid 326g (Used cooled mint tea)
EO- Peppermint 8g
Other Notes:
Combined with stick blender when oil and lye water were both at btwn 40-45C.
Using silicone mold. Wrapped mold in towel when letting cool.
Used a (cleaned) milk carton as an overflow mold- very, very sticky soap resulted.