Favourite soaping temperature

What is your favourite temperature to soap at? What differences do you notice the temperature makes?

 

I soap at room temp for the most part. My hard oils, at times, may be a little warmer. I try to just heat until clear.
Soaping at lower temps does not cause the acceleration you tend to see when soaping warmer, IMO.

 

That also how I do it. Sometimes if I'm doing a single color or no color I'll use hot lye so I get trace faster since my high lard recipe is slow to trace.

 

Depends on what I'm doing with the soap. If it's a more complicated design I soap at around 80-90*F. If it's just a pour and mold then I soap at around 105-108*F. Once I soaped at 118*F because I heated my oils too hot and got impatient and I was just pouring a single color soap.

 

Room temp soaper here.

 

I want to soap at room temp, but impatience gets me every time. So far, the best I can usually manage is to use the heat transfer method. I need to try masterbatching my lye & see if that works for me.

 

I do hot process - so 170 to 200

 

MB lye makes all the difference. All you have to do is heat hard oils until just about clear. Usually I still have a couple clumps of lard that I just stir a little after heating to get them to melt, add my liquid oils, and that brings the temp down to right where I need it to be. I have been very surprised at the difference in performance of some FOs as far as acceleration.

 

Room temp here too, unless I'm using beeswax, then use lye and oils warm.