I'm a completely newbie and I made my first batch yesterday. It was a disaster! I didn't line my mould properly so lost of paper is stuck in my soap lol!
Anyway the main problem was that the soap crumbled away a lot when being cut. I've read online that it's due to being lye heavy, I could be wrong though. How can I fix it?
33.3 oz x water
159g of lye
22 oz x olive oil
12.31 oz x coconut oil
Oh to note. When cooling my lye I placed the container in a ice/salt/water bath to help cool it, my oils ended up warmer than the lye, could this also have been the problem?
Thanks in advance
Anyway the main problem was that the soap crumbled away a lot when being cut. I've read online that it's due to being lye heavy, I could be wrong though. How can I fix it?
33.3 oz x water
159g of lye
22 oz x olive oil
12.31 oz x coconut oil
Oh to note. When cooling my lye I placed the container in a ice/salt/water bath to help cool it, my oils ended up warmer than the lye, could this also have been the problem?
Thanks in advance