Hi everyone.
I was comparing the different strengths & weaknesses between HP & CP soaping methods when I got an idea about what might be a totally new way to make soap that has the good points of both HP & CP soapmaking.
From what I've read, HP is much faster than CP and helps soapers to avoid soap batch seizure because the EOs are added after saponification is nearly complete. To me this seems to suggest a link between the EOs and unreacted lye that hasn't had time to fully react yet.
Some feel that the downside with the HP is that the bars aren't generally as smooth as CP bars.
It dawned on me that a soaper might be able to get the convenient fast batch completion speed of HP AND the very smooth bar texture of CP, all in the same process.
It all hinges on whether M&P soap bar texture is as nice and smooth as CP bar texture.
The significance of this last point is that perhaps a commercial soaper could expedite their product delivery date by treating the HP batch as nothing more than a way to quickly produce fully cured M&P soap base chips.
An HP batch could be weighed out, cooked off, poured into molds, cured for only one week, demolded, chipped, melted together with EOs & dyes and smoothly poured into the final moulding in only 8 days.
If I'm right, in only 9 or 10 days basic ingredients could be transformed into fully cured soap bars ready for market that were as smooth as CP bars.
As stated in this threads' title, my question is:
Are M&P chips fully cured when M&P soapers buy them???
The reason I'm asking this in reference to my idea of expediting commercial soamaking is that our forums' "how to" section recommends curing finished M&P for an additional 3 to 4 weeks after rebatching.
Here's a link to our "how to" sections' page on M&P method:
http://soapmakingforum.com/how-to-make- ... -soap.html
That leads me to believe that the M&P chips mentioned in the "how to" section were made via CP, not HP, because HP soap is theoretically finished reacting as it leaves the soap pot, or at least very shortly afterwards.
Can anyone tell me whether M&P chips are made by CP or HP???
I was comparing the different strengths & weaknesses between HP & CP soaping methods when I got an idea about what might be a totally new way to make soap that has the good points of both HP & CP soapmaking.
From what I've read, HP is much faster than CP and helps soapers to avoid soap batch seizure because the EOs are added after saponification is nearly complete. To me this seems to suggest a link between the EOs and unreacted lye that hasn't had time to fully react yet.
Some feel that the downside with the HP is that the bars aren't generally as smooth as CP bars.
It dawned on me that a soaper might be able to get the convenient fast batch completion speed of HP AND the very smooth bar texture of CP, all in the same process.
It all hinges on whether M&P soap bar texture is as nice and smooth as CP bar texture.
The significance of this last point is that perhaps a commercial soaper could expedite their product delivery date by treating the HP batch as nothing more than a way to quickly produce fully cured M&P soap base chips.
An HP batch could be weighed out, cooked off, poured into molds, cured for only one week, demolded, chipped, melted together with EOs & dyes and smoothly poured into the final moulding in only 8 days.
If I'm right, in only 9 or 10 days basic ingredients could be transformed into fully cured soap bars ready for market that were as smooth as CP bars.
As stated in this threads' title, my question is:
Are M&P chips fully cured when M&P soapers buy them???
The reason I'm asking this in reference to my idea of expediting commercial soamaking is that our forums' "how to" section recommends curing finished M&P for an additional 3 to 4 weeks after rebatching.
Here's a link to our "how to" sections' page on M&P method:
http://soapmakingforum.com/how-to-make- ... -soap.html
That leads me to believe that the M&P chips mentioned in the "how to" section were made via CP, not HP, because HP soap is theoretically finished reacting as it leaves the soap pot, or at least very shortly afterwards.
Can anyone tell me whether M&P chips are made by CP or HP???
