Thank you for all of your help you guys! I just want to make sure I making the soap correctly and I'm not harming anyone I sell soap to. My next market is in 4 weeks so these bars should be perfect to sell then. Thanks again <3
Taking all this into consideration, what do you think is causing the marks on my soap? Is it just the dry soap from around the crock? I’m hoping I don’t have to rebatch these but am totally willing just to save what might be tossed if these are ruined.
Also I haven’t had problems with my bars...
I don’t used fragrance oils or any dyes or artificial coloring. I do however scent with essential oils. I don’t normally use pH strips but I was just testing in case they were highly acidic because I couldn’t figure out what could be causing it. I thought maybe that it was just dried soap also...
I zap tested them when they were done cooking and going through the different stages of Hot Processing. Technically hot process soap is ready to use right after cooking but I like to wait at least a week before doing anything with them. Just based off of research and trouble shooting, I assumed...
I have made close to 200 bars of soap for a market I have this weekend. My soap molds are small and only make 16 bars so if you do the math I have made about 12 loaves of soap. Every single soap loaf has lye pockets in it, I think. They are these white blobs in my soap that leak glycerin. The...