Hi everyone,
I'm new to this forum and started making my own soap only two weeks ago! I absolutely love it and after a few good, simple batches I have started to experiment a little...
I have tried to make a simple cucumber and lemon soap with this recipe:
500ml extra virgin olive oil
100ml coconut oil
80g lye
195g cucumber juice
5g lemon E/O (I only wanted a faint smell)
The soap traced well and I thought 'why not add extra cucumber loveliness!?' and added a handful of grated cucumber. 24 hours later, I have now unmoulded and cut the soap and there are bright big green chunks of cucumber :cry:
So my question is: is the soap still good and useable?
I worry that the cucumber is going to go off soon and smell/rot within the soap.
Lesson learnt: do not add chunks of cucumber to soap.
I'm new to this forum and started making my own soap only two weeks ago! I absolutely love it and after a few good, simple batches I have started to experiment a little...
I have tried to make a simple cucumber and lemon soap with this recipe:
500ml extra virgin olive oil
100ml coconut oil
80g lye
195g cucumber juice
5g lemon E/O (I only wanted a faint smell)
The soap traced well and I thought 'why not add extra cucumber loveliness!?' and added a handful of grated cucumber. 24 hours later, I have now unmoulded and cut the soap and there are bright big green chunks of cucumber :cry:
So my question is: is the soap still good and useable?
I worry that the cucumber is going to go off soon and smell/rot within the soap.
Lesson learnt: do not add chunks of cucumber to soap.