KCupcake
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Hi everyone! I'm EXTREMELY new to soap making and had just completed my first recipe a few days ago. Of course, this new experience brought on the feelings/thoughts of "Holy smokes! I made my first soap!!! I AM AWESOME!!!".
Making the soap had a few of crap moments. I poured in accidentally 20g extra of lye, and switched the amounts on the olive oils & olive oil pomace. I realize this is a major problem, but I think I was so frazzled with goofing up that I did just that. Anyway, the day after the soap experience I noticed the soap being a bit soft in the mold and looked up online to see what people said, and had decided to let it sit another day. The soap was like fudge soft and I wasn't sure what was normal. Today, I removed the mold only to see brown streaks in part of my soap. I realize it could be anything from fragrances used to oil rancidity (I buy mine from a known supplier to many soapers).... I decided to cut into it figuring that I could use it still myself, but couldn't sell it only to find that the inside was a faint green with the outside being a pretty cream color. What the heck is going on?!
I want to obviously try this again (and not call it quits because I failed somewhere), but I need to figure out why it did that.
Any thoughts? Where did I go wrong? pictures & recipe attached)
Was it the coconut milk I used instead of water? (I used a coconut milk that had only that and water as the ingredients)
The frozen lump of heavy cream that was added to the oils (72g)?
The fragrances?
The extra lye?
Too high of a superfat?
[I also know I made too much, I guess I was just too naive that it would work out! Oh well, lesson learned!)
Making the soap had a few of crap moments. I poured in accidentally 20g extra of lye, and switched the amounts on the olive oils & olive oil pomace. I realize this is a major problem, but I think I was so frazzled with goofing up that I did just that. Anyway, the day after the soap experience I noticed the soap being a bit soft in the mold and looked up online to see what people said, and had decided to let it sit another day. The soap was like fudge soft and I wasn't sure what was normal. Today, I removed the mold only to see brown streaks in part of my soap. I realize it could be anything from fragrances used to oil rancidity (I buy mine from a known supplier to many soapers).... I decided to cut into it figuring that I could use it still myself, but couldn't sell it only to find that the inside was a faint green with the outside being a pretty cream color. What the heck is going on?!
I want to obviously try this again (and not call it quits because I failed somewhere), but I need to figure out why it did that.
Any thoughts? Where did I go wrong? pictures & recipe attached)
Was it the coconut milk I used instead of water? (I used a coconut milk that had only that and water as the ingredients)
The frozen lump of heavy cream that was added to the oils (72g)?
The fragrances?
The extra lye?
Too high of a superfat?
[I also know I made too much, I guess I was just too naive that it would work out! Oh well, lesson learned!)