Those look great!
How do you do whipped rebatch? I've not read about it. Okay, I am on a search to find more information. I'll probably watch a couple of youtube videos about it after my husband goes to bed tonight. Three popped up in a Google search, so I think that might be a good start.
Oh, I also found this: http://www.soapmakingforum.com/showthread.php?t=6481
So I will give this a try. It looks like fun.
AnnaLee, does your whipped rebatch soap float? Mine doesn't and I'm wondering if either I used too much liquid, so it's still too wet (it's only been a few days), so it needs to cure/dry out longer, or I didn't whip enough air into it.
Here's what mine came out looking like. Bear in mind, I was only testing the process and had no goal for a pretty soap. And after testing a stamp with plastic wrap between the soap & the stamp to see if it would work to stamp the soap without creating a messy stamp to clean up, I broke the top of the soap off, so that's why the top looks like that:
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It's not necessary to add lots of liquid to soap in order to melt it down. Usually, you only need enough liquid to dampen the pieces. The fresher the soap is, the easier it is to melt, also, because there is still sufficient liquid trapped INSIDE the soap to allow it to melt easily.
OLDER than a week Add liquid.
FRESH, less than a week-old Not much or any liquid.
9 oz liquid for 16-24 oz of grated soap.
The fresher the soap, the less liquid you'll use. The older the soap, the closer you'll get to the 9 oz liquid per 16 oz. of soap.
Soap made with animal fats Use distilled water.
Soap made with Veggie oils Use milk.
Vegetable oils need animal fats to melt down more completely. So use MILK instead of WATER to wet down the grated soap. ANY kind of milk...from skim to goat's milk to wet the soap. ICE COLD from the fridge.
Use LOW, INDIRECT heat. Soap scorches easily.
Allow 3 hours, give or take some time.
Too cool! Just a couple of quick tips... to save my knuckles from grating up the soap, a soaping buddy gave me an old Presto Salad Shooter and I have a dedicated food processor that I found at a garage sale. Both work well and make quick work of the grating part. Then there's this:
HTH
That helps very much! Thank you!
I definitely need to find a salad shooter to rebatch soap with. The reason mine had little chunks in it was because I couldn't grate all the pieces down evenly. I got a nice cut on my thumb grating them up too.
That helps very much! Thank you!
I definitely need to find a salad shooter to rebatch soap with. The reason mine had little chunks in it was because I couldn't grate all the pieces down evenly. I got a nice cut on my thumb grating them up too.
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