judymoody
Well-Known Member
Mish, let me offer some friendly unsolicited advice. If you began soaping in December, you are not ready to sell. If you are following recipes to the letter - how do you know those recipes are any good? Have you been running them through a lye calculator? Slow down a bit and do a lot of testing before you put anything out on the market. Measure everything and take good notes. I would hate to be judged as a soapmaker based on the quality of my early batches. They were perfectly good, but I got much better.
I am not going to pile on about essential oil weights. If your batch size exceeded 2 pounds of oil (seems like it from the picture) then you probably did not overdo on the fragrance. 3% is roughly .5 oz/PPO, by the way.
I suspect you overdid on the honey and given that it still retained some honey taste and odor, I suspect it did not saponify and formed the pockets you describe. 1 T PPO is a good place to start for an amount of honey in soap.
I am not going to pile on about essential oil weights. If your batch size exceeded 2 pounds of oil (seems like it from the picture) then you probably did not overdo on the fragrance. 3% is roughly .5 oz/PPO, by the way.
I suspect you overdid on the honey and given that it still retained some honey taste and odor, I suspect it did not saponify and formed the pockets you describe. 1 T PPO is a good place to start for an amount of honey in soap.