A few weeks ago I posted about a double batch of soap that took for ever to trace. Speculations were that it was the thawed olive oil, not running the recipe back through the lye calculator, even the temp being too high. Well, yesterday, I tried again. This time I used the lye calculator, made my plain old soap recipe - doubled. Poured everything in my bucket, fired up my paint mixer on the drill and stired - for 20 minutes. NOTHING HAPPENED again! I was miffed and baffled. Then, I had a thought - what if it wasn't getting stired enough? I grabbed my stick blender, stuck it way down into the bucket, and voila - in 5 minutes, the soap traced! I won't be using this not-so-bad-boy again!
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