KatieShephard
Well-Known Member
Yes, you read that right. I made soap that my kids have named "poop soap". It was supposed to be chocolate soap, but things went terriblly wrong. Let me explain.
First, this was my 2nd batch of soap ever. I was very excited that I was going to make some chocolate soap (I'm a huge chocolate lover). The plan was to put a larger quantity of cocoa butter in it and some cocoa powder in at trace.
Here's the recipe by %:
Cocoa Butter 25
coconut 25
Shea 5
Palm 25
Soybeen 15
Castor 5
Then I got to watching youtube and got the brilliant idea of steeping my chocolate flavored tea, which my mother gave me and I didn't quite like, and adding it into my lye instead of the usual water. People on youtube did this with coffee, so I figured this would just add to the chocolatey goodness. Wrong!
I did it CP, adding the lye to the chocolate tea...then adding the lye water to my oils...then adding the cocoa powder at trace. It all smelled a little funny, but I soldiered on. Left the loaf out overnight and went to cut it almost a full 24 hours later.
I took it out of the mold and it leaked! And it stunk like ammonia! Horrible! A few hours on youtube later and I was cutting it all up and putting it in the crock pot to rebatch it, liquid ooze and all (at least what was left). First time rebatching and I added way too much water...as it never got melt-y. Remolded it...left it for 2 days...unmolded it and cut it.
It's now really dark brown, soft, and still stinks, but not like ammonia...just badly.
Any ideas on what went wrong? I'm thinking it was the tea. I did let it cool before I added the lye.
Here's some picture's...
the before
First, this was my 2nd batch of soap ever. I was very excited that I was going to make some chocolate soap (I'm a huge chocolate lover). The plan was to put a larger quantity of cocoa butter in it and some cocoa powder in at trace.
Here's the recipe by %:
Cocoa Butter 25
coconut 25
Shea 5
Palm 25
Soybeen 15
Castor 5
Then I got to watching youtube and got the brilliant idea of steeping my chocolate flavored tea, which my mother gave me and I didn't quite like, and adding it into my lye instead of the usual water. People on youtube did this with coffee, so I figured this would just add to the chocolatey goodness. Wrong!
I did it CP, adding the lye to the chocolate tea...then adding the lye water to my oils...then adding the cocoa powder at trace. It all smelled a little funny, but I soldiered on. Left the loaf out overnight and went to cut it almost a full 24 hours later.
I took it out of the mold and it leaked! And it stunk like ammonia! Horrible! A few hours on youtube later and I was cutting it all up and putting it in the crock pot to rebatch it, liquid ooze and all (at least what was left). First time rebatching and I added way too much water...as it never got melt-y. Remolded it...left it for 2 days...unmolded it and cut it.
It's now really dark brown, soft, and still stinks, but not like ammonia...just badly.
Any ideas on what went wrong? I'm thinking it was the tea. I did let it cool before I added the lye.
Here's some picture's...
the before