gigisiguenza
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after trying to solve the trace issues on the recipe with the sunflower oil in it, I think I got it right thanks to all you lovely folks and your generous help.
1- It was suggested it might be the castor, and after checking the others batches where I did swirls, I noticed that only 1 of them was at 10%, the others were at 5% - so I bumped it down a tiny smidge (2.5 oz instead of 3 oz)
2- It was suggested that in was soaping too warm, or my oils were too warm because I was microwaving them - so I melted the hard oils on the stove on lowest temp and added them to the cool liquid oils. Took a little longer than nuking them, but it was worth it.
3- I *know* I was SBing too much - so I tried something different - I added my FOs and my kaolin clay to the oils and pulsed it thoroughly to incorporate them both well before I added my lye solution.
This seems to be a really nice method for me as once I had all the extras added to the oils, adding the lye solution last gave me much better control over how fast it traced. I only needed to pulse a very little bit to get it to emulsion/very light trace. And once I separated out my little portions to be colored, it stayed much more fluid than it has in the past couple of batches. It wasn't *as* fluid as I wanted, but it was much better.
I really want to master getting it to be very very liquid for specific swirls I wanna try, but I'm not sure how to do that. Maybe a recipe with more liquid oils instead of so many solids?
I welcome any and all feedback, and tyvm to all who have been helping me figure this out so far
G
1- It was suggested it might be the castor, and after checking the others batches where I did swirls, I noticed that only 1 of them was at 10%, the others were at 5% - so I bumped it down a tiny smidge (2.5 oz instead of 3 oz)
2- It was suggested that in was soaping too warm, or my oils were too warm because I was microwaving them - so I melted the hard oils on the stove on lowest temp and added them to the cool liquid oils. Took a little longer than nuking them, but it was worth it.
3- I *know* I was SBing too much - so I tried something different - I added my FOs and my kaolin clay to the oils and pulsed it thoroughly to incorporate them both well before I added my lye solution.
This seems to be a really nice method for me as once I had all the extras added to the oils, adding the lye solution last gave me much better control over how fast it traced. I only needed to pulse a very little bit to get it to emulsion/very light trace. And once I separated out my little portions to be colored, it stayed much more fluid than it has in the past couple of batches. It wasn't *as* fluid as I wanted, but it was much better.
I really want to master getting it to be very very liquid for specific swirls I wanna try, but I'm not sure how to do that. Maybe a recipe with more liquid oils instead of so many solids?
I welcome any and all feedback, and tyvm to all who have been helping me figure this out so far
G