Color me confused
- did you use palm oil or palm kernel oil? I ask because I thought from your other thread that you were going to use palm oil and not PKO. I also ask because the two oils are very different from each other. Although its true that PO and PKO will both make hard, white soaps, that's where the resemblace ends. PO is interchangable with and very close to lard and/or tallow in its fatty acid makeup, while PKO is interchangable with and close to coconut oil in its fatty acid makeup. In a nutshell, PKO will make a very bubbly soap, but PO will not.
Anyway, if you used 50% CO and 50% PKO and happened to have waited until the finished soap completely cooled off before cutting, then I'm not surprised at all that you got crumbles/particles. That's what happens to this particular kind of soap recipe (High CO, High PKO) when one waits too long to cut it. For this type of soap, its best to cut it when the soap has just come out of the gel stage and hardnened back up some, but is still quite warm or hot to the touch. That's the perfect time to cut it without it breaking apart on you.
Yes, you can rebatch it. Just grate it up and cook over low heat until it softens and reaches the gel stage again before glopping/pressing it into your mold. You may add a little bit of water to the gatings, but not too much. Just enough so that the soap doesn't dry out as its cooking. You can also add extra oil if you want to. How much? Well, that's the tricky part. What I would do is punch your recipe into an online
lye calculator like SoapCalc and play around to get the amount you think you would like.
Holler if you need any help.
IrishLass