MySoapyHeart
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At all. Like 0% sudsing or bubbling action. Rubbing like my life depended on it, and nothing. Like washing your hands with a stick of butter.
It has cured 5 weeks.
What could be going on? It is rock hard, impossible to cut with a knife or break, it smells lovely of lavender/lemongrass and makes my hands so soft.
I have made this recipe sooo many times (well, not with that ammount of castor that is!) and never ever had this happen to me at all, not with any of my soapbatches.
It is just a simple coconut soap, superfatted at 20%, with castor.
Recipe using soapcalc - 20% SF:
Coconut 83.33 % - 92 deg.
Castor oil - 16.67 % (I know it is a lot, usually I have used up to 5%, but wanted to experiment just this time)
Water: 8.04 oz.
Lye: 2.95 oz.
A dash of Lemongrass & Lavender essential oil (0.66 oz)
Luckily it was just a small batch (17 oz) but still, since it is for all of us here I am disappointed that it is so useless as I really looked forward to using it after the cure.
Any ideas of what could be the case? All my soaps have always had crazy lather, so this threw me by surprize big time!
The only thing I could think of - but still find puzzling since the soap is so rock hard, is that the lye could not be as effective as it should be? It came from a bran new cannister, never been opened before. The only thing was, I discovered a few clumps in it. Could this be the source of the problem?
And also, what could I do with this "soap"? If I shred it I would imagine it would inhibit the suds of the other soap... I could of course shred it and use as confetti on top of other soaps, just for decoration. But seems like such a waste...
Thank you in advance
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It has cured 5 weeks.
What could be going on? It is rock hard, impossible to cut with a knife or break, it smells lovely of lavender/lemongrass and makes my hands so soft.
I have made this recipe sooo many times (well, not with that ammount of castor that is!) and never ever had this happen to me at all, not with any of my soapbatches.
It is just a simple coconut soap, superfatted at 20%, with castor.
Recipe using soapcalc - 20% SF:
Coconut 83.33 % - 92 deg.
Castor oil - 16.67 % (I know it is a lot, usually I have used up to 5%, but wanted to experiment just this time)
Water: 8.04 oz.
Lye: 2.95 oz.
A dash of Lemongrass & Lavender essential oil (0.66 oz)
Luckily it was just a small batch (17 oz) but still, since it is for all of us here I am disappointed that it is so useless as I really looked forward to using it after the cure.
Any ideas of what could be the case? All my soaps have always had crazy lather, so this threw me by surprize big time!
The only thing I could think of - but still find puzzling since the soap is so rock hard, is that the lye could not be as effective as it should be? It came from a bran new cannister, never been opened before. The only thing was, I discovered a few clumps in it. Could this be the source of the problem?
And also, what could I do with this "soap"? If I shred it I would imagine it would inhibit the suds of the other soap... I could of course shred it and use as confetti on top of other soaps, just for decoration. But seems like such a waste...
Thank you in advance
http://www.soapmakingforum.com//no.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/
