I officially made my first soapy mistake today. I guess it was bound to happen after so many years without an issue. I'm posting this under beginners in case it helps someone else who is just getting started.
I make cold process goat milk soap. We're right in the middle of pouring 25 batches for the holiday seasons coming up, and I was working on 2 batches of peppermint EO tonight. The short story is that I forgot to add olive oil to 1/4 of my batch.
The long story is that all of my oils are premixed to make pouring easier. There are 3 oils in one jug, and since the jug isn't big enough, olive is in a second jug (I think you can see where this is going). I probably would have been fine, except I decided to make this a layered bar, white, then red, then white, and red on top. I have 2 batches of this scent to pour, so what I decided to do was to make a half batch, color and scent it, then divide it between the 2 molds. So the first half pour was white. The second half pour was red, split between the two, and so on and so forth.
The issue came when I was cleaning up and realized that I forgot to add the olive oil to the third pour. That means that I have a situation where each batch of soap is missing 1/4 of its olive oil, and an entire layer in each is missing all of its OO.
My question is, how doomed am I? Am I going to have to rebatch it and add the OO (I've never rebatched, so that'll be a new experience), or is there any hope that my totally cool soap might end up okay? Below is the recipe for a half pour, and of course each mold has 4 of these in it (hope that makes sense). I'm not the greatest at using soap calc, but from what I can tell, that layer is basically going to have 0% SF, right? Is it going to be too caustic to use, or might the surrounding layers that are perfectly fine (and about 8% SF) mellow it out somewhat?
8 oz. Almond oil
16 oz. Coconut oil
20 oz. Palm oil
20 oz. Olive oil
8.73 oz. NaOH
21.12 oz. milk
Thanks, all.
I make cold process goat milk soap. We're right in the middle of pouring 25 batches for the holiday seasons coming up, and I was working on 2 batches of peppermint EO tonight. The short story is that I forgot to add olive oil to 1/4 of my batch.
The long story is that all of my oils are premixed to make pouring easier. There are 3 oils in one jug, and since the jug isn't big enough, olive is in a second jug (I think you can see where this is going). I probably would have been fine, except I decided to make this a layered bar, white, then red, then white, and red on top. I have 2 batches of this scent to pour, so what I decided to do was to make a half batch, color and scent it, then divide it between the 2 molds. So the first half pour was white. The second half pour was red, split between the two, and so on and so forth.
The issue came when I was cleaning up and realized that I forgot to add the olive oil to the third pour. That means that I have a situation where each batch of soap is missing 1/4 of its olive oil, and an entire layer in each is missing all of its OO.
My question is, how doomed am I? Am I going to have to rebatch it and add the OO (I've never rebatched, so that'll be a new experience), or is there any hope that my totally cool soap might end up okay? Below is the recipe for a half pour, and of course each mold has 4 of these in it (hope that makes sense). I'm not the greatest at using soap calc, but from what I can tell, that layer is basically going to have 0% SF, right? Is it going to be too caustic to use, or might the surrounding layers that are perfectly fine (and about 8% SF) mellow it out somewhat?
8 oz. Almond oil
16 oz. Coconut oil
20 oz. Palm oil
20 oz. Olive oil
8.73 oz. NaOH
21.12 oz. milk
Thanks, all.