I'm definately gonna try again. The palm oil idea sounds like a good idea. I did notice that the lye calculator showed it to be a softer soap, but I figured it would be useable just the same. I'm just going to let this batch dry for a while, keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best...
Maybe my PH test strips are bad. But what still puzzles me is that I have used this recipe MANY times, but ALWAYS with lard, never Crisco. 100's of great bars of soap and not a problem. I guess I can do nothing but let them sit and cure and pray they'll get harder.
Thanks for all the help...
The recipe
Here is the recipe I used for my mushy soap. I've never needed to wait more than a few days to use my soap when made with lard. Also, this was the first time I used the castor/olive oil mix.
48 oz Crisco (with Palm Oil)
20 oz. Canola
20 oz. Coconut Oil
4 oz. Castor Oil
4...
Ok, to start I'm a newbie on this forum. I make HP soaps because I don't have the space to have 100's of bars of soap curing. My recipies are all based on CP soaps and have always worked out well. I always used a lard based recipies. My niece is a vegan so she wanted me to go all plant based...