Arrgh! (a soapy ranty rant)

[Arimara]

So I'm doing some digging and looked up an older thread where someone suggested a food scale as opposed to a postal scale for measuring. I see the truth in it since one of my 3 recent batches came out ten kinds of zappy and I have a postal scale (I was a little hasty so it was my fault). It's zapping much less today than it did last Wednesday but I'm wondering if I'm going to rebatch this one. Should I just wait the 6 weeks and see if it's still zappy?

 

[IrishLass]

Did your soap go through the gel stage? I ask because it is perfectly normal for un=gelled batches to be zappy for several days after unmolding.


IrishLass

 

[Susie]

Yep, wait for a week or so. I usually gel my soaps, but I was making a small tester batch and did not have enough batter in the mold to heat up enough for gel. It was too soft to cut at 18 hours, so I ended up leaving it about 50 hours before cutting. It was still really zappy. It is fine a week later, though.

 

[Arimara]

Nope. This is actually the only soap that didn't go through gel. And now, I'm going to moydarize (intentional phonetical spelling) a sibling for completely making me question myself. I knew I read somewhere that non-gelled soap could take a while to not saponify but it was only one source.

I'm sorry for the freaking out.

 

[cmzaha]

Un-gelled soaps can stay zappy up to 72 hrs. That is usually the magic time to no zap

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

Aye - I even cut my ungelled soaps with gloves, to be safe.

There was one thread where people made a really lye heavy batch, but with a lot of water, and it cured out to no-zap! We're talking a lot of extra lye - was really interesting to learn