eep I screwed up!

[soapshark]

I just made a gigantic double-batch of soap. I don't know how or why this happened, I usually make it with, half olive oil and the other parts palm and coconut oil - but this time I made it with equal parts olive oil and coconut oil (40 oz each) with the amount of lye I would need for the palm oil recipe (12 oz lye, 28 oz water)

What should I do? It looked okay when I put it in the molds (I didn't realize until I went to make another batch). I sell these so I'm not sure what to do. Can I cut the soap into pieces and distribute into a new batch? Or will these bars be okay?

 

[SoapAddict415]

Hi Soapshark. I ran your recipe thru soapcalc using 40 oz of each oil, a 38% water discount & 5% superfat. The amounts I got for lye & water were 45.6 oz water, 17.5 oz lye. Maybe you could run your exact recipe amounts used, thru soapcalc & rebatch it with the amount of lye solution that you're short? I hope that helps.

 

[Hazel]

I agree with SoapAddict's reply. Shred the batch, make another batch with 33.3 oz palm, 12.6 oz water and 4.4 oz lye and add the shredded soap to the palm batch.

 

[DottieF.]

Don't worry about it. It should be fine. I ran the 50/50 recipe through the MMS lye calculator and 12 oz. of lye will give you a 6% discount. There's no sense in rebatching it. That would be a huge waste of time and effort.

 

[Hazel]

DottieF -

The cleansing value is very high for her 50/50 batch which is why I recommend rebatching. I think most people would find it extremely drying. I don't think many people could tolerate a cleansing value of 34 without a much higher superfat.