tanukigalpa
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Hi!
I just tried to make a tiger striped soap which requires the soap to be at thin trace. My soap uses sodium hydroxide. I mixed at room temperature lye water and oils. I separated it after emulsion into three parts.
I used 1oz total of lavender essential oil for 32 oz of oils. Then I added additional .3oz vanilla fragrance oil to one part and colored with activated charcoal. Quick pulse with the stick blender. The charcoal-vanilla part not only traced within 1-2 minutes of leaving it alone, it became solid! I had to scrape it out of the container. It was soap. It was also blazing hot - I couldn't even touch the container.
What am I doing wrong? I feel like it has to be the charcoal. How can I color the soap black while keeping it at thin trace long enough to pour stripes?
Thanks.
I just tried to make a tiger striped soap which requires the soap to be at thin trace. My soap uses sodium hydroxide. I mixed at room temperature lye water and oils. I separated it after emulsion into three parts.
I used 1oz total of lavender essential oil for 32 oz of oils. Then I added additional .3oz vanilla fragrance oil to one part and colored with activated charcoal. Quick pulse with the stick blender. The charcoal-vanilla part not only traced within 1-2 minutes of leaving it alone, it became solid! I had to scrape it out of the container. It was soap. It was also blazing hot - I couldn't even touch the container.
What am I doing wrong? I feel like it has to be the charcoal. How can I color the soap black while keeping it at thin trace long enough to pour stripes?
Thanks.