akseattle
Well-Known Member
I made this batch of soap on February 27. It is 31.99% OO, 31.99% CO, 31.99% red palm oil, and 4.02% Castor oil. I soaped at 108/109 degrees. I covered the soaps with a large plastic microwave oven bowl and then with some towels. After a couple days, it started to get serious soda ash. I sprayed it with alcohol 3-4x over a 4-5 days. The soda ash kept coming back. Finally, I steamed it with my iron on two different days and the soda ash stopped forming. I've kept it in a cool closet in a wooden wine box with some towels over it until a week or two ago (with other soap.)
Today, I took it out to separate out all the different batches and put in different boxes and it had these white spots. (It may have had like one or two little dots when I looked at it a week or two ago. This doesn't seem like soda ash. It's not powdery and it looks like what I think DOS would like like except that its not orange.
I'm pretty positive that the fork I used to stir the lye water was stainless steel. I'm wondering what these white spots might be. Anyone know?
Today, I took it out to separate out all the different batches and put in different boxes and it had these white spots. (It may have had like one or two little dots when I looked at it a week or two ago. This doesn't seem like soda ash. It's not powdery and it looks like what I think DOS would like like except that its not orange.
I'm pretty positive that the fork I used to stir the lye water was stainless steel. I'm wondering what these white spots might be. Anyone know?