I decided to make the Shampoo Bar today with the only difference of using Sunflower seed oil instead of soya been oil.
I added one spoon of sugar in the water, then added the lye, diluted everything, then added the lye to the oils. I reached trace easily with a hand mixer as always when making cold process. Then I added the soap in a double boiler to cook it. I cooked it for about 1 hour and 20 minutes. I did the zap test and it was negative (I think).
Then I added Gardenia FO and I put the mixture in the mold.
The hours are passing and the soap does not harden!
It remains a green jelly thing. It should have hardened by now.
I don’t know why this is happening and I don’t know what to do.
Should I continue cooking the soap or not ???
Note that this is a particular FO that accelerates very very much when making cold process. It accelerates so much, that if I put it in trace, the soap will break in small pieces before putting it in the mold. This is why I hot processed this soap, because I wanted to use this FO that I like very much.
Could this have slow down now the saponification process?
