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Or how not to I should say?!
Ok, I usually do GM by half water half concentrate for a full milk. Cold GM into oils after lye water is pulsed in 3 short bursts. Easy! Works every time.
So I decided to do a buttermilk soap today.
I froze to a slush the buttermilk. I wanted a full buttermilk soap and didn't have concentrate like I use with GM (is this my mistake?? Is full buttermilk too much???). I added lye crystals to the slushie buttermilk (like a slush GM soaping technique I read about), and stirred. It turned yellow, of course, and I had it sitting in an ice water bath, tried to turn orange but it calmed back.
The buttermilk curdled. Horribly. Curds. Being my 12th batch, I decided not to panic. I stirred and stirred. Still curds, so I SB the lye milk. It's just going to saponify, right?! Well it smoothed out, and I poured it into my oils. I Then SB all to emulsion. Split my batch, and it traced so freaking fast (before the fo and colorants!). Ah! Literally from emulsion to thick trace in 2 minutes!
Well long story short, I made a buttermilk soap at full milk. Is this ok? What do I do for a full buttermilk soap next time to prevent massive curdling? Is it too high in fat and that's going to be similar to a ghee soap now? Stinky? Any insight is beyond welcomed!
Ok, I usually do GM by half water half concentrate for a full milk. Cold GM into oils after lye water is pulsed in 3 short bursts. Easy! Works every time.
So I decided to do a buttermilk soap today.
I froze to a slush the buttermilk. I wanted a full buttermilk soap and didn't have concentrate like I use with GM (is this my mistake?? Is full buttermilk too much???). I added lye crystals to the slushie buttermilk (like a slush GM soaping technique I read about), and stirred. It turned yellow, of course, and I had it sitting in an ice water bath, tried to turn orange but it calmed back.
The buttermilk curdled. Horribly. Curds. Being my 12th batch, I decided not to panic. I stirred and stirred. Still curds, so I SB the lye milk. It's just going to saponify, right?! Well it smoothed out, and I poured it into my oils. I Then SB all to emulsion. Split my batch, and it traced so freaking fast (before the fo and colorants!). Ah! Literally from emulsion to thick trace in 2 minutes!
Well long story short, I made a buttermilk soap at full milk. Is this ok? What do I do for a full buttermilk soap next time to prevent massive curdling? Is it too high in fat and that's going to be similar to a ghee soap now? Stinky? Any insight is beyond welcomed!