MasterMonster
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Hello- I've been lurking for a while and am new here. Forgive this being my first post but it's something immediately on my mind and didn't see it elsewhere!
I've been making cold process soap most of my life; I used to help my mother make it as a boy and I've made it on my own since I was about sixteen. I'd never tried hot process, though, and I did it today for the first time, in the crock pot.
It went flawlessly, and I'm very pleased with it, but about halfway through the cooking, my throat and chest started feeling a bit 'tickly' and now they're both sore and irritated. Not horribly so, but enough to make me wonder. I am 100% sure it's not lye inhalation. I didn't inhale any of the lye, and I'm very well aware of what that feels like. I did it once by mistake years and will never forget that sensation and the hacking fit!
I'm just wondering if this sort of reaction is "normal" with hot process soap? I did use a FO. It's one I've used before in CP with no issues, in the exact recipe I usually use in CP, but I have noticed the smell of it is lingering very heavily in my home- I can still smell it strongly even though I finished cooking the batch about five hours ago. I do have some mild lung problems as well. I'm basically wondering if the fumes from the HP soap, or maybe the oil, or something could cause this reaction, as I was fine beforehand-- ie, perhaps HP is simply not for me.
I've been making cold process soap most of my life; I used to help my mother make it as a boy and I've made it on my own since I was about sixteen. I'd never tried hot process, though, and I did it today for the first time, in the crock pot.
It went flawlessly, and I'm very pleased with it, but about halfway through the cooking, my throat and chest started feeling a bit 'tickly' and now they're both sore and irritated. Not horribly so, but enough to make me wonder. I am 100% sure it's not lye inhalation. I didn't inhale any of the lye, and I'm very well aware of what that feels like. I did it once by mistake years and will never forget that sensation and the hacking fit!
I'm just wondering if this sort of reaction is "normal" with hot process soap? I did use a FO. It's one I've used before in CP with no issues, in the exact recipe I usually use in CP, but I have noticed the smell of it is lingering very heavily in my home- I can still smell it strongly even though I finished cooking the batch about five hours ago. I do have some mild lung problems as well. I'm basically wondering if the fumes from the HP soap, or maybe the oil, or something could cause this reaction, as I was fine beforehand-- ie, perhaps HP is simply not for me.