Jaccart789
Well-Known Member
I made some soap yesterday with a routinely used recipe. I have stopped insulating my soaps because I notice that the soap in my hdpe mold heats pretty fierce and even. However, 2 times and yesterday my soap never gelled (I was up really late watching movies, so I checked frequently), but it went hard and stayed firm, colors stayed matte, now 24 hours later it is warming and getting soft. This happened before with another soap different FO, same mold and same recipe and it went gel after 12 hours, but now its been 24 hours. The only thing that is different in the variables is the FO. I used a peppermint FO in this recent batch.
Have you heard of this? I was about to cut my soap since its been 24 hours but now its significantly warm and getting soft. How weird. I have soaped close to 200 batches and this is the third time this has happened, but again I don't use this mold all the time and different FO. I never have this happen in my other molds. My experience is soap becomes very stiff and then gels soft, colors become translucent and then becomes firm again.
What do you think? Has this happened to you?
Have you heard of this? I was about to cut my soap since its been 24 hours but now its significantly warm and getting soft. How weird. I have soaped close to 200 batches and this is the third time this has happened, but again I don't use this mold all the time and different FO. I never have this happen in my other molds. My experience is soap becomes very stiff and then gels soft, colors become translucent and then becomes firm again.
What do you think? Has this happened to you?
