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My licorice soap came out cream and grey, rather than white and black. Funny- it looks sort of blue and white in this picture, but it's not really. Can anyone help me with how to get jet black and pure white?
Here's the recipe I used:
CO 30
Palm 20
Shea Butter 10
OO 30
Caster 10
36.23% water
8% superfat
licorice F/O
1 T. icing sugar and 1/2 tsp salt dissolved in the water before adding lye.
I mixed 1 tsp TD with a bit of glycerine and added it after I mixed the lye into the oils. (Maybe I should have only added the TD to the white part later?)
I added the F/O to the whole batch, then took out 1/3 and mixed 1 tsp charcoal into the smaller part.
By this time, it was at medium to thick trace and it ended up as layers, rather than a swirl. I tried a bit of a stir, but it was setting up very quickly.
I OP in the mold for 1 hour at 170F then shut the oven off and left it overnight. Perhaps preventing gel by refrigerating would have made it white?
Do you think the TD prevented the charcoal from making true black? How come the TD didn't make the soap white?
Help?
Here's the recipe I used:
CO 30
Palm 20
Shea Butter 10
OO 30
Caster 10
36.23% water
8% superfat
licorice F/O
1 T. icing sugar and 1/2 tsp salt dissolved in the water before adding lye.
I mixed 1 tsp TD with a bit of glycerine and added it after I mixed the lye into the oils. (Maybe I should have only added the TD to the white part later?)
I added the F/O to the whole batch, then took out 1/3 and mixed 1 tsp charcoal into the smaller part.
By this time, it was at medium to thick trace and it ended up as layers, rather than a swirl. I tried a bit of a stir, but it was setting up very quickly.
I OP in the mold for 1 hour at 170F then shut the oven off and left it overnight. Perhaps preventing gel by refrigerating would have made it white?
Do you think the TD prevented the charcoal from making true black? How come the TD didn't make the soap white?
Help?