BlowinBubbles
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Late last year I made a CP Castile with 40% lye concentration after reading something somewhere that doing this would make the batter reluctant to gel. It made hard soap fairly fast but with a gel stain (which I'd like to avoid). This afternoon I decided to make the same recipe but CpOp. I'm a bit puzzled because after 2.5 hours at 50celsius, my soap still hadn't appeared to have gelled. Slowly I increased the temp until the soap started to rise at which point it was hastily removed. What I noticed was that there appeared to be a 'skin' with the gelled soap underneath!
Is 40% lye concentration too strong for CpOp Castile? or could there be something else I need to consider?
Is 40% lye concentration too strong for CpOp Castile? or could there be something else I need to consider?