Hi,
I’ve been making soap for awhile but still a novice. I always can’t dilute my soap. I’ve tried many recipes with many different oils. However, my main oils are usually olive and coconut with variants such as castor, grapeseed, etc.
My last 2 batches were total failures. The first batch was using bramble berry calculator:
24 oz olive oil
20 oz coconut oil
6 oz grapeseed oil
11,4 oz KOH
34,1 oz water
This is with 2% superfatting
It took around 4 days in my warm crockpot and on the 4th day I thought I should heat it a bit to fully dilute everything. I’ve been adding distilled water as well to make it dilute but after I heated it up, the soap hardens and the liquid just gone....
This second batch I use the following recipe:
32 oz coconut oil
16 oz olive oil
2 oz castor oil
12,1 KOH
36,3 water
This is 0 supperfatting and still using bramble berry calc.
It’s been 2 days and 2.5L of water and a large chubk is still not dissolved. Please help!
I’ve been making soap for awhile but still a novice. I always can’t dilute my soap. I’ve tried many recipes with many different oils. However, my main oils are usually olive and coconut with variants such as castor, grapeseed, etc.
My last 2 batches were total failures. The first batch was using bramble berry calculator:
24 oz olive oil
20 oz coconut oil
6 oz grapeseed oil
11,4 oz KOH
34,1 oz water
This is with 2% superfatting
It took around 4 days in my warm crockpot and on the 4th day I thought I should heat it a bit to fully dilute everything. I’ve been adding distilled water as well to make it dilute but after I heated it up, the soap hardens and the liquid just gone....
This second batch I use the following recipe:
32 oz coconut oil
16 oz olive oil
2 oz castor oil
12,1 KOH
36,3 water
This is 0 supperfatting and still using bramble berry calc.
It’s been 2 days and 2.5L of water and a large chubk is still not dissolved. Please help!