GraceDarlingSoaps
Active Member
Dear Fellow Soapers,
I decided to try and melt my solid oils with the warm lye solution for the first time today. My solid oils consisted of 43% Palm, 20% Coconut and 6% Shea butter. The solid oils did not all melt this way and the mixture became quite cool with lumps of solid oils, I suspect mainly the Shea and Coconut were the problem oils. I tried squashing them with 2 spoons, then put the bowl in a warm water bath, finally stick blended even before I added the liquid oils. This seems to have worked. However, I had a little ricing after I added Vanilla FO. I suspect this was from the FO, but wonder if maybe this occurred because the solution was too cold? Should I have microwaved the caustic and solid oils when I saw that they were not going to dissolve? Up till now I have always microwaved the solid oils to melt them before mixing with liquid oils. Thank you to all the experienced soapers out there for your advice,
GraceDarlingSoaps
I decided to try and melt my solid oils with the warm lye solution for the first time today. My solid oils consisted of 43% Palm, 20% Coconut and 6% Shea butter. The solid oils did not all melt this way and the mixture became quite cool with lumps of solid oils, I suspect mainly the Shea and Coconut were the problem oils. I tried squashing them with 2 spoons, then put the bowl in a warm water bath, finally stick blended even before I added the liquid oils. This seems to have worked. However, I had a little ricing after I added Vanilla FO. I suspect this was from the FO, but wonder if maybe this occurred because the solution was too cold? Should I have microwaved the caustic and solid oils when I saw that they were not going to dissolve? Up till now I have always microwaved the solid oils to melt them before mixing with liquid oils. Thank you to all the experienced soapers out there for your advice,
GraceDarlingSoaps