Coconut milk.... almost soap

[artemis]

I was planning to make a quick, small batch of soap this morning with coconut milk as my liquid. Ihave done this before, so I got out the frozen cubes, added lye, preheat the oven, prep the oils, blah blah blah. Suddenly, I was called away from the project. I made sure everything was safe and dashed out the door. When I got back, I found that the coconut milk/lye mixture had solidified! It is really quite a hard block! I'm not really super surprised, since I'd left it so long. It just struck me funny when I opened my container and found that brick in the bottom.

I suppose nothing can be done with it at this point, right? It's basically a *really* lye-heavy soap on it's own, I would think.

 

[Dahila]

I would put the container in hot water

 

[toxikon]

You could probably add the rest of your oils with hot process. That's quite funny though!

 

[artemis]

If it ever happens again, I will probably experiment a little to see what I can do. Or maybe I'll do it on purpose just for the sake of learning!

 

[Obsidian]

Can you break it up and stick blend it into the oils or is it too hard? You could try heat to soften it up first.

 

[Susie]

I would heat it up in the crock pot. You may end up with usable stuff.

 

[artemis]

I think it was too hard to stick blend. I think softening the brick and then plopping into the crock with the oils might work?

 

[artemis]

I was wrong! I broke the brick apart with a fork, added it to the oils and stick blended. It came to a nice smooth trace with no lumps. It is in the warm oven now, so we shall see what happens.