Beer soap fix?

[Sudzy girl]

I posted yesterday about my failed batch. I used potassium hydroxide by mistake. Now I have a bowl of soap paste made from a bar soap recipe. What can I do with it besides tossing it in the garbage?

 

[lsg]

You can make emulsified scrub with it. Combine it with liquid soap and stearic acid to make cream soap. Try whipping it with a portable mixer. It might whip up to be nice and fluffy.

 

[houseofwool]

Or dilute it and use as a liquid soap.

 

[FlybyStardancer]

You can still use it as soap, either diluted for liquid soap or just as a paste soap.

However, since you used the amount of lye needed based off of NaOH recipe, you'd need to add more lye if you want to make it into a liquid soap. Might be a good idea and rebatch if you want to use it as a paste, anyways.

 

[Seawolfe]

Add a little glycerin and see how it works as a shaving soap?

 

[Obsidian]

I would dilute it and make liquid soap.

 

[Sudzy girl]

Thanks everyone!! Liquid soap it is.

 

[pamielynn]

It's funny... I was going to ask if you were using KOH instead. I probably should have...

 

[Sudzy girl]

Lol...call it part of the learning curve