Curious
Member
Hello,
I'm trying to step my soap making skills up by experimenting with micas and fragrance oils. My goal is to produce a nicely swirled soap. I've had different results ranging from an OK swirl to OMG, my batter is too thick. I believe the issue is the fragrance oil is accelerating the soap batter, making it difficult to get a complete swirl effect. I tried an in the pot swirl & my batter had traced so heavily that by the time I poured my colored soap in, the soap was setting up in the bowl.
My question is, does anyone have any suggestions of fragrance oils that I could try that would leave me enough time to complete a swirl technique. In other words, that would allow the batter to remain fluid enough to work with before setting up?
Once I add the lye to the oils, I'm only bending enough for the two to emulsify - thinking this will allow me time to work , but once I add the fragrance oil, things move pretty quick with the batter & I'm not experienced enough to keep up with it. I end up with soap but not quite what I was going for. Any suggestions or feedback is greatly appreciated, thanks so much!
I'm trying to step my soap making skills up by experimenting with micas and fragrance oils. My goal is to produce a nicely swirled soap. I've had different results ranging from an OK swirl to OMG, my batter is too thick. I believe the issue is the fragrance oil is accelerating the soap batter, making it difficult to get a complete swirl effect. I tried an in the pot swirl & my batter had traced so heavily that by the time I poured my colored soap in, the soap was setting up in the bowl.
My question is, does anyone have any suggestions of fragrance oils that I could try that would leave me enough time to complete a swirl technique. In other words, that would allow the batter to remain fluid enough to work with before setting up?
Once I add the lye to the oils, I'm only bending enough for the two to emulsify - thinking this will allow me time to work , but once I add the fragrance oil, things move pretty quick with the batter & I'm not experienced enough to keep up with it. I end up with soap but not quite what I was going for. Any suggestions or feedback is greatly appreciated, thanks so much!