penelopejane
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i was making a tester soap batch.
I was dividing the mix into four.
One cup had 35g water, 12 g FO, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp citric acid. This was the only part with CA so I added 1.5 g NaOH to neutralise the CA.
Immediately it formed 2 mm soft balls in the bottom of the cup.
I couldn’t squash them or reincorporate them. There were no hard lye pearls left.
Does anyone have any idea what the NaOH reacted with?
Has this happened to anyone else?
I threw it away and mixed the NaOH with plain water first then added the other ingredients and it worked fine.
Will the soft balls reform later within the soap?
I was dividing the mix into four.
One cup had 35g water, 12 g FO, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp citric acid. This was the only part with CA so I added 1.5 g NaOH to neutralise the CA.
Immediately it formed 2 mm soft balls in the bottom of the cup.
I couldn’t squash them or reincorporate them. There were no hard lye pearls left.
Does anyone have any idea what the NaOH reacted with?
Has this happened to anyone else?
I threw it away and mixed the NaOH with plain water first then added the other ingredients and it worked fine.
Will the soft balls reform later within the soap?
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