eleraine
Well-Known Member
Do you think this is mold?
The soap is made using cocoa powder, 90% dark chocolate and 50% goat's milk. Soap formula includes cocoa butter, olive oil, castor oil and apricot kernel oil. After curing for 4 weeks, I wrapped these up in stretch wrap and sent it to the owner. This was in November last year. She opened this up yesterday or earlier today and found that the tree soap has spots that looked a little like mold. The other soap (same formula) is okay.
I suspect that there was a pocket of air trapped in the stretch wrap and because the wrap isn't breathable, it created a nice and humid environment. I live in the tropics where the temp is 30°C and humidity is around 60-80%.
Would it have been prevented if she were to remove the stretch wrap or for me to have just shipped it to her unwrapped in shrink bands or shrink wrap or any plastic?
The soap is made using cocoa powder, 90% dark chocolate and 50% goat's milk. Soap formula includes cocoa butter, olive oil, castor oil and apricot kernel oil. After curing for 4 weeks, I wrapped these up in stretch wrap and sent it to the owner. This was in November last year. She opened this up yesterday or earlier today and found that the tree soap has spots that looked a little like mold. The other soap (same formula) is okay.
I suspect that there was a pocket of air trapped in the stretch wrap and because the wrap isn't breathable, it created a nice and humid environment. I live in the tropics where the temp is 30°C and humidity is around 60-80%.
Would it have been prevented if she were to remove the stretch wrap or for me to have just shipped it to her unwrapped in shrink bands or shrink wrap or any plastic?