Help with Liquid soap - Ops!

[rcrahmer]

I am hoping that someone could help me with a mistake I made. I was making some liquid Castile soap and realized that i used the wrong Lye. I used Sodium instead of Potassium. My soap was already at medium trace so I put it in a mold. I looked at it several hours latter and it is cracked down the middle. I believe that is is due to my recipe was a little lye heavy.

Here is my question. Can I run my recipe through a lye calc with with Sodium used and adjust the oils to accommodate the amount of lye I used? If that works, do I just melt down my current batch? I don't want to throw this away if I there is a way to fix this.

Any help would be great!

Thanks!

 

[Lindy]

I can't see why not. The worst that happens is you have to throw out the batch. Keep in mind you can also use it for laundry as you would want a lye heavy soap for maximum cleaning.

Have fun with your experiments and make sure you let us know how you made out.

 

[rcrahmer]

Thank you. I will let you know how it turns out.

 

[rcrahmer]

Well, I re-batched my soap yesterday and It turned out really well. I was surprised to learn that it was not as difficult as some of the instructions I have read online.


Thanks for the help!


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[Lindy]

Well done!