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[gemma]

Hello from Australia.
I started making cold process soap some years ago, but life went and came along and the soap stopped. Have just restarted and am loving the science experiments (hot process) soap. I actually had a volcanic eruption last night. Quite exciting. Took nearly 2 hours to clean up. What have I learned?
There are very good reasons for all the safety precautions
Safety precautions.
Sometimes it just happens.
Have rechecked my recipe on soap calc. all good. I know I weighed accurately. The only bone of contention is my thermometer. Out by about 8 degrees. Maybe it all got a bit hot??
Really interesting result though. Could call it 2 minute HP Benchtop soap.
Gemma

 

[SaltedFig]

Hi Gemma,

What were you soaping in?

Sounds adventurous already!
Welcome aboard

 

[shunt2011]

Hello and Welcome to the forum!

 

[dixiedragon]

Welcome back! You name looks familiar to me. What size container were you soaping in? IMO, when HPing, your crockpot/slow cooker should be no more than 1/2 full.

 

[Zany_in_CO]

Howdy from Colorado USA ! I hope that's the last of the "exciting" batches!

 

[Laurabolyard]

Welcome! I've had a two minute oven process, I fond out later that is was WAY too much sugar and really heated things up! I do it on the counter now, to keep an eye on things, way too much of an oven mess!!

 

[SunRiseArts]

Hello!

 

[KristaY]

Hi Gemma & welcome! Hope your excitement calms down a bit. I've had a few episodes like that & I'm happy not to repeat them!

 

[lsg]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[IrishLass]

Welcome, Gemma!


IrishLass

 

[scard]

 

[gemma]

Thanks for the welcome everyone. Have had a little time of as family health issues determined my time to be used elsewhere.
My HPsoap was done in a very large boiler only about 1/10th full No sugar was used and no heat applied after I mixed the lye into the oils.
Havn't had it happen again (thank goodness) although I have been admiring my beautiful clean floor, bench etc and wondering ???