serfmunke
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Hi All, I have a recipe it's about 80% saturated oils, mainly beef tallow. I've made it before, it was easy, perfectly behaved soap. I just made three batches, all seized upon adding the lye water. The last batch I threw into a pot and into the oven. It looks like it will be an OK HP batch. The first two batches I slopped into the mold, they set up nicely but when cut there are obviously chunks of harder, white soap. Some bars look cool like a titanium swirl but not all, some have blobs. First batch I soaped at 115 oils with cooler lye, probably 75. So I thought the cooler lye solidified the saturated oils. Nope, I soaped at 105 oils and lye, still, same problem. My next attempt, with a smaller batch size, my last thought would be to not discount the water.
Any thoughts? Ideas? Wisdom?
TIA!
Any thoughts? Ideas? Wisdom?
TIA!