As I said in my introduction I've been making CP GM soap for years. I have been the luckiest Soapifer in the world, I think, because I've only had one batch, in all that time, that turned out ICKY. It was dry and chalky.
Ok not all of them turned out in the moulds perfectly, some had air pockets, or stuck in places so they weren't pretty enough to sell. Those become "friend's benefits" or our own soaps to use.
Last night, after reading some posts and recipes on wine soap, I thought, I'll make a batch of that.
Using my good old basic recipe, I blended the oils. Cooked the wine down, and made the lye solution with the wine...and for some reason, after all these years of doing my GM soaps...ok I was outta my comfort zone so I double checked everything 5 times and re-read some posts and I poured the lye mixture into my oils . Never in all my years of making soap have I done that, I always pour my oils into the lye/GM mixture...but I could have sworn I read somewhere to do it the opposite of what I normally did. So, I did.
OMG!! What happened?? It seized immediately!! I did manage to get some FO mixed through it, somehow.
Trust me, I don't know how to make a "small" batch. So I have this 16 cup stainless steel bowl that just turned into an unwilling mould!
I manically scoped it out and using a stainless steel spatula to press in down into the moulds (ovals). That process took longer than most of the dinners I prepare!
This morning it smelled good. But it looked like, well...it looked bad. Way bad. And ugly brown colour, lots of air pockets and nasty looking tops.
Ok help me out here. I'm sure it's the wine, due to the acidic content. Or maybe it's the process of pour the lye mixture into the oils. Or maybe both. Now for the real confession, I didn't have any drinking wine I was willing to part with on this experiment, so I just red cooking wine.
Mercy, it was scary! So what did I do wrong??
Adi
Ok not all of them turned out in the moulds perfectly, some had air pockets, or stuck in places so they weren't pretty enough to sell. Those become "friend's benefits" or our own soaps to use.
Last night, after reading some posts and recipes on wine soap, I thought, I'll make a batch of that.
Using my good old basic recipe, I blended the oils. Cooked the wine down, and made the lye solution with the wine...and for some reason, after all these years of doing my GM soaps...ok I was outta my comfort zone so I double checked everything 5 times and re-read some posts and I poured the lye mixture into my oils . Never in all my years of making soap have I done that, I always pour my oils into the lye/GM mixture...but I could have sworn I read somewhere to do it the opposite of what I normally did. So, I did.
OMG!! What happened?? It seized immediately!! I did manage to get some FO mixed through it, somehow.
Trust me, I don't know how to make a "small" batch. So I have this 16 cup stainless steel bowl that just turned into an unwilling mould!
I manically scoped it out and using a stainless steel spatula to press in down into the moulds (ovals). That process took longer than most of the dinners I prepare!
This morning it smelled good. But it looked like, well...it looked bad. Way bad. And ugly brown colour, lots of air pockets and nasty looking tops.
Ok help me out here. I'm sure it's the wine, due to the acidic content. Or maybe it's the process of pour the lye mixture into the oils. Or maybe both. Now for the real confession, I didn't have any drinking wine I was willing to part with on this experiment, so I just red cooking wine.
Mercy, it was scary! So what did I do wrong??
Adi