Hii everyone!
I know I've been inactive for a while now but finally found my way back to the forum. I have made a few soaps in the past months, of which I will post picture when my camera is back from reparation (stupid sand in the lens...).
This soap I just had to show you so I took a pic with my ipad, not the greatest quality...
This ladies and gentlemen is my soap monster! Teeth and everything!
foto.JPG by Ileandra, on Flickr
I made it sunday and started cutting it tuesday. One slice... Not bad... Second slice... Oil flood! According to soapqueen it's a heat tunnel and it is harmless, I didn't really thrust the harmless part so I rebatched it with adding extra oil, +- the amount I lost. To bad I didn't thrust it as it would have made a nice halloween soap. Just a bit oily...
There doesn't appear to be much info on heat tunnels, there's more about volcanos. But what makes the tunnel and what the volcano?
I soaped at my usual soap temp., which is pretty hot as I like to prevent those tiny white flecks. It was also the first time I used goatsmilk powder which probably has to do with it to. I used cherry blossom FO, used it before without any problems. Maybe it was the combo... The other issue would have been my dad's solution. I use a silicone mold, and as most of you know, it doesn't keep it's shape without help. I tried many things, big books, milk containers, bricks,... But it never kept the rectangle shape over the entire mold. Told my dad about it, he looked at it and whipped something up for me:
foto.JPG by Ileandra, on Flickr
It defenitely kept it's form this way, but I think the wood is to thick, which made it very hard for the heat to get out even though nothing was covering it.
This was the recipe I used:
Goatsmilk recipe by Ileandra, on Flickr
Does anyone of you have had any experience with heat tunnels?
Thanks for watching!
I know I've been inactive for a while now but finally found my way back to the forum. I have made a few soaps in the past months, of which I will post picture when my camera is back from reparation (stupid sand in the lens...).
This soap I just had to show you so I took a pic with my ipad, not the greatest quality...
This ladies and gentlemen is my soap monster! Teeth and everything!
foto.JPG by Ileandra, on Flickr
I made it sunday and started cutting it tuesday. One slice... Not bad... Second slice... Oil flood! According to soapqueen it's a heat tunnel and it is harmless, I didn't really thrust the harmless part so I rebatched it with adding extra oil, +- the amount I lost. To bad I didn't thrust it as it would have made a nice halloween soap. Just a bit oily...
There doesn't appear to be much info on heat tunnels, there's more about volcanos. But what makes the tunnel and what the volcano?
I soaped at my usual soap temp., which is pretty hot as I like to prevent those tiny white flecks. It was also the first time I used goatsmilk powder which probably has to do with it to. I used cherry blossom FO, used it before without any problems. Maybe it was the combo... The other issue would have been my dad's solution. I use a silicone mold, and as most of you know, it doesn't keep it's shape without help. I tried many things, big books, milk containers, bricks,... But it never kept the rectangle shape over the entire mold. Told my dad about it, he looked at it and whipped something up for me:
foto.JPG by Ileandra, on Flickr
It defenitely kept it's form this way, but I think the wood is to thick, which made it very hard for the heat to get out even though nothing was covering it.
This was the recipe I used:
Goatsmilk recipe by Ileandra, on Flickr
Does anyone of you have had any experience with heat tunnels?
Thanks for watching!