houseofwool
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I know this has been addressed a dozen times, but I'm still questioning some things.
Liz's recent post got me thinking and I went back and looked at some of my bars from 6-9 months ago and some have started to go rancid and I don't really know why.
Basic recipe is (roughly, but not exactly)
25% CO
35% OO
25% Palm
10% Shea
5% Castor
(some may have had SAO)
Typically superfatted between 5-8% and using either water or goats milk as the water. There were a lot of variations, but they were all roughly equal parts CO, OO, PO and the Castor and Shea stay the same.
We have pretty good water around here and I have always used tap, not distilled.
My question is if dissolved minerals could be causing this (doesn't seem likely).
The oils have been purchased from most of the big online places, Brambleberry & Soapers Choice for the most part. Lye is from Essential Depot.
There are a variety of EO's and colorants that were used. and the DOS does not seem to be consistent. Batches from the same time frame, some developed DOS and some are great.
I am stumped as to what is happening and I would really like to get it figured out.
Any thoughts?
Liz's recent post got me thinking and I went back and looked at some of my bars from 6-9 months ago and some have started to go rancid and I don't really know why.
Basic recipe is (roughly, but not exactly)
25% CO
35% OO
25% Palm
10% Shea
5% Castor
(some may have had SAO)
Typically superfatted between 5-8% and using either water or goats milk as the water. There were a lot of variations, but they were all roughly equal parts CO, OO, PO and the Castor and Shea stay the same.
We have pretty good water around here and I have always used tap, not distilled.
My question is if dissolved minerals could be causing this (doesn't seem likely).
The oils have been purchased from most of the big online places, Brambleberry & Soapers Choice for the most part. Lye is from Essential Depot.
There are a variety of EO's and colorants that were used. and the DOS does not seem to be consistent. Batches from the same time frame, some developed DOS and some are great.
I am stumped as to what is happening and I would really like to get it figured out.
Any thoughts?