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Darn. False trace makes sense. Thanks. I was wondering how I would rebatch it anyways being that's there's so much all through the soap. What a waste...

I couldn't because of the percentage of shea butter I used turned the caustic soap immediately opaque, but you're right. I'll strain the lye solution for now on. Thanks

I had a mix of coconut oil, shea butter, grapeseed oil, castor oil, and corn oil melted in my crock pot. Once they lye solution cooled I poured it into the crock pot with the fats and immediately started blending. The sight of the fats were opaque immediately because I used a lot of shea butter...

Every pic with the white spots on the bulls eye piece zaps

It is lye. When I liked it it zapped furiously. The circle part is hot process and the weird red color is cold processed. I put the hot processed circle into the freezer after gel phase to cool for an hour or so. Then I made the cold processed red soap , put the hot processed circle soap into a...

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Hi guys! I'm new here, but I have been making soap for roughly 6 years and I have encountered crystals of lye in my hot processed soap, which I also put in the oven to make a compound hp/ cpop soap with an embed. I have pics here for you to see. I'm going to re-batch it with a little more...

Lye crystal in hot processed soap