Hi everyone.
Today I tried a simple cold process recipe using only one oil. It was 100% palm kernel oil.
Anyway, I'm concerned that I may have done something wierd to mess up my soap because instead of making the usual greyish white bars that are sort of transluscent, this batch has gone nearly 100% opaque white with almost no transluscent greyness at all.
I think I may have blended it too much with my stick blender. It seemed to trace up just fine, but as I whipped it a little extra, just to make sure it was fully blended, it turned very white.
Now I know this feedstock is supposed to make hard & white bars, but most of the previous batches I tried initially turned into a greyish transluscent white, not an opaque snow white.
This happened once before & a local soapmaker told me that maybe I never added enough water.
This time I used the soapcalc at www.lyedepot.com and it gave me a very small batch using the following figures:
*palm kernel oil-224 gm (grams)
*water-89.6 gm
*lye-33.2 gm
this is a very simple recipe-pretty hard to mess it up. Unfortunately, I can be pretty simple sometimes...
Did I whip this stuff too much?
Is it too dry?
Is there anything anyone can think of that might explain what I'm seeing here with this last batch?
Today I tried a simple cold process recipe using only one oil. It was 100% palm kernel oil.
Anyway, I'm concerned that I may have done something wierd to mess up my soap because instead of making the usual greyish white bars that are sort of transluscent, this batch has gone nearly 100% opaque white with almost no transluscent greyness at all.
I think I may have blended it too much with my stick blender. It seemed to trace up just fine, but as I whipped it a little extra, just to make sure it was fully blended, it turned very white.
Now I know this feedstock is supposed to make hard & white bars, but most of the previous batches I tried initially turned into a greyish transluscent white, not an opaque snow white.
This happened once before & a local soapmaker told me that maybe I never added enough water.
This time I used the soapcalc at www.lyedepot.com and it gave me a very small batch using the following figures:
*palm kernel oil-224 gm (grams)
*water-89.6 gm
*lye-33.2 gm
this is a very simple recipe-pretty hard to mess it up. Unfortunately, I can be pretty simple sometimes...
Did I whip this stuff too much?
Is it too dry?
Is there anything anyone can think of that might explain what I'm seeing here with this last batch?
