Recent content by bmesnard

Bingo! Exactly what mine looked like. Seems consistent with the corn oil contamination event. The lot number of my bad bucket is 092616-3865. If your lot number matches, I'll contact Soapers and plead with them to get in touch with every customer who received this contaminated product. If...

Second run with the second batch of CO from Soapers was successful. The failed first run was obviously my fault. I must have incorrectly measured one of the ingredients - water maybe - that resulted in a mushy loaf. Anyways - this thread is complete. Thanks so much for all of your comments!

RDak: Yes - I noticed it immediately. Coconut oil should look fairly opaque and almost white, with a reasonably dry feel in a 50 degree environment. My bucket looked translucent and yellowish, and was quite greasy to the touch. Soapers told me they had changed a manufacturing line from corn oil...

Hey Gerry. No, I was not being sarcastic at all. I wasn't expecting so many good posts to my original query. Yes - you are spot on. Corn oil would lower the SAP of my oil batch. After I heard from Soapers that corn oil was in the coconut oil, I realized the problem was not SAP but too much soft...

Nice to see these posts! I received a 50lb bucket from Soapers in November that just didn't look right. Soapers eventually told me that the batch was contaminated with Corn Oil. OK - fine. That explains the problems I was having. Too much soft oil and not enough hard oil. However, I received a...

So I've been going a little crazy since I received a new shipment of coconut oil from Soaper's Choice (Columbus Vegetable Oils) in November 2016. I made two batches of soap using this new oil and they were both total failures. Columbus sent me another shipment, and soap made from that batch also...