SoapDaddy70
Well-Known Member
Hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I was making soap this afternoon and when I mixed my lye solution into the oils I got these weird looking flakes that just showed up a couple of seconds into mixing with spatulas. I attached my recipe which is the same recipe I have used for my last 2 batches. Only thing I did differently was place the mason jar that I had my lye solution in into a bowl of ice water. I usually don't do this but I unexpectedly had to go somewhere so I needed to cool lye solution down quickly. It was already around 125-130F before I did this. Placed the mason jar with the lye solution in a bowl filled with ice water and stirred until it got down to around 100F. Oils were around 90F. Once I stick blended for a couple of seconds those flakes got mixed back in I guess. Did this have something to do with rapid cooling of the lye solution?