barbara mariottini
New Member
i was making soap the other day and this is what to my soap it does not look nice it looks like a volcano it 2 seconds for it to reach a heavy trace and it looked rocky her is is my soap recipe the lye the temperature went really high to 50 degree f within 2 seconds and didn't give me a chance to get my oil ready what happened and what can i do to prevent this and is this soap safe
32 ounces tallow or lard
4.33 ounces sodium hydroxide or lye
11.2 ounces distilled water
1 or 2 teaspoon essential oil
Gather supplies prepare molds
2 melt tallow in sauce pan
3 Wearing long sleeved shirt googles gloves add lye to water be careful don’t splash always add to water
never the other way around it might explode
4. when tallow cools to 100- and 125-degrees fare height and the lye solution is within 10 degrees oof tallow solution s solution pour lye into tallow
5 use immersion blender a and mix until trace and soap
6 Stir in essential oils
7 pour soap into molds
32 ounces tallow or lard
4.33 ounces sodium hydroxide or lye
11.2 ounces distilled water
1 or 2 teaspoon essential oil
Gather supplies prepare molds
2 melt tallow in sauce pan
3 Wearing long sleeved shirt googles gloves add lye to water be careful don’t splash always add to water
never the other way around it might explode
4. when tallow cools to 100- and 125-degrees fare height and the lye solution is within 10 degrees oof tallow solution s solution pour lye into tallow
5 use immersion blender a and mix until trace and soap
6 Stir in essential oils
7 pour soap into molds