here is a final pic of the soap after it dried a bit after cutting. looks pretty good. i will try one of the small soaps in a couple days.
i will chop all the big slices in half, but i want to do it over time to see how long it takes the insides to dry out. i cut one today, and the "dryness" went in about 3/16" around all the sides. I will cut the next in a few days to see how much farther the drying went in.
i got up the nerve to lick the white spot on the flower and no zap, so its soda ash, not lye
i did make a batch of yogurt soap yesterday
and after 12 hours i rubbed a wet finger on the top and licked it and i wouldn't call it a zap at all, but it tasted a bit salty and a bit sour. unlike the other soap that didn't taste of either salt or sour...
and then after 24 hours i took out out of the mold and the bottom seemed a tad wet on the surface so i licked my finger and i still wouldn't necessarily call it a "zap", but it was like a "sharp" sour....almost a zap
so does that mean its a little lye heavy? and still needs to sit more? or will it stay lye heavy?
the liquid is not oozing out at all, the surface just felt a little damp like with water (not oil).
it was superfatted 8%, so there should be more than enough fat for the lye to eat.
that one i had put into the freezer immediately (and had pre-frozen the mold) because the first soap i made gelled so much so fast
and it was in there for a few hours (i had gone out) before i put it into the fridge. does freezing it solid stop the saponification and wreck it?
the color of the block stayed very light tho unfortunately there is a small faint ring in the middle of the side and bottom that is darker, so it did start to gel a bit. i guess if its going to gel at all, might as well let the whole thing turn to gel then chill it to prevent a big crack, that way the color will be uniform.
