Traumabrew
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I made a batch of soap today. Ingredients: 20% CO, 20% OO, 15% cocoa butter, 15% palm oil, 10% pine resin, 10% Apricot oil, 10% castor oil. Used 1tsp hibiscus powder to color, 4 tsp sodium lactate
My essential oil blend was: amber, cedarwood, siberian fir and cypress.
I soaped at 110 degrees. As I was pouring the lye in, I started to see ricing. So I stick blended it to beat it into submission and I was seeing gel phase in the bowl in 20 seconds of adding in my lye. I added my EO blend at this point and it just stimulated it further. It was still ricing and the stainless steel bowl got so hot, I had to use oven gloves to handle it. I beat the darn thing into submission and glopped it into my mold. Gel phase was occurring faster as I was glopping it in. I shot a quick temp of the bowl as all this was going and my laser temp gun read 310 degrees! Amazingly, somehow, I did not get soap on a stick.
Never had such a rapid, violent exothermic reaction occur like this. The reaction was more vigorous than adding lye to water.
My essential oil blend was: amber, cedarwood, siberian fir and cypress.
I soaped at 110 degrees. As I was pouring the lye in, I started to see ricing. So I stick blended it to beat it into submission and I was seeing gel phase in the bowl in 20 seconds of adding in my lye. I added my EO blend at this point and it just stimulated it further. It was still ricing and the stainless steel bowl got so hot, I had to use oven gloves to handle it. I beat the darn thing into submission and glopped it into my mold. Gel phase was occurring faster as I was glopping it in. I shot a quick temp of the bowl as all this was going and my laser temp gun read 310 degrees! Amazingly, somehow, I did not get soap on a stick.
Never had such a rapid, violent exothermic reaction occur like this. The reaction was more vigorous than adding lye to water.