Problem with my first attempt at M&P embeds in CP soap

[Feelin' Soapy]

It was a nuisance making CP embeds and waiting until the next day to unmold and use them, so I thought I hit on the perfect solution trying M&P for the embeds. Made my first batch with the cutest little kitties in them (from a column mold). The soaps look good, but the kitties are wet. I used Nurture's Low Sweat Clear M&P and the soaps have been curing for 2 weeks now on a rack with good air flow. Will the embeds ever stop sweating? Will they damage the surrounding CP soap? I use stick-on labels and don't want to wrap them. Will the embeds sweat right through the paper?
I've been excited thinking up all these ideas for holiday soaps with embeds, but now not sure I want to do them anymore.
Sign me, Disappointed in the PNW

 

[ScentimentallyYours]

It sounds to me like typical glycerin MP sweat, drawing humidity from the air. That has been happening even to my regular CP soaps this summer. I have not had an issue with Brambleberry’s low sweat MP embeds in the past, but I don’t know how they would’ve performed the last 3 months. I finally had to break down and set up a dehumidifier.

Maybe someone else has a suggestion on how to stop MP sweat? I wonder if they are also drawing moisture from the CP soap? Perhaps they will behave better when cured?

 

[Feelin' Soapy]

The soaps have been curing for about 2 weeks now, but we're having the first damp weather this week after a hot dry summer, so that's probably contributing to the sweating. This particular batch is part of a wholesale order, so I'm especially nervous for it to be just right. I need to label and deliver them in about 2 weeks

 

[ScentimentallyYours]

If you can get them in a dry situation, so the soap stop sweating and then shrink wrap them or use another way to keep the moisture out, the soap should be fine.

 

[Feelin' Soapy]

If you can get them in a dry situation, so the soap stop sweating and then shrink wrap them or use another way to keep the moisture out, the soap should be fine.

I don't want to shrink wrap. I'd give up on M&P embeds if that's the only way to avoid sweaty soap.
There's no controllable "dry situation" -- I'm in the Pacific Northwest! Rain happens

 

[QuasiQuadrant]

It was a nuisance making CP embeds and waiting until the next day to unmold and use them, so I thought I hit on the perfect solution trying M&P for the embeds. Made my first batch with the cutest little kitties in them (from a column mold). The soaps look good, but the kitties are wet. I used Nurture's Low Sweat Clear M&P and the soaps have been curing for 2 weeks now on a rack with good air flow. Will the embeds ever stop sweating? Will they damage the surrounding CP soap? I use stick-on labels and don't want to wrap them. Will the embeds sweat right through the paper?
I've been excited thinking up all these ideas for holiday soaps with embeds, but now not sure I want to do them anymore.
Sign me, Disappointed in the PNW

Thanks for sharing this! I have been considering trying to make some melt & pour from scratch because I don't like the ingredients in typical melt & pour bases, and then trying them as embeds or toppers, just for the he-double-hockey-sticks of it

Buuuttt....this problem you're having, me being concerned about the sweating issue, is what has stopped me from going ahead with this. I've seen some nice soaps with this type of look, but that sweating thing put me off completely before I even got started.

 

[ScentimentallyYours]

There's no controllable "dry situation" -- I'm in the Pacific Northwest! Rain happens

Yesterday they announced on the news that Boston has had the second highest rainfall recorded since 1955, and it is the only one out of the top 10 that did not have tropical storm systems like hurricanes marching through here. That explains my soap being wet all the time this summer for the first time ever.

I understand not wanting to shrink wrap. Figuring out the best universal way to package our soaps is a perpetual problem.

 

[Cindy D.]

I made this melt and pour and used it in my soap challenge soap this month. The windows have been open and it's been humid, I haven't seen any sweat on mine at all. It smells super sweet, from the glycerin and it has 95%alcohol in it. Mrs soap and clay day 314... July 18, 2022 video

the spots In it are air bubbles.

 

[Feelin' Soapy]

@Cindy D. Interesting that you didn't get any sweating. I wonder if the formula of your M&P from the Nurture M&P I used made the difference?
Also, I used my embed only hours after making it. When I do it again, I'll cure them for at least a few days.

 

[Cindy D.]

I used mine right after making it with no issue. My grandson made soap from the same recipe and I've made a lapis soap following "from grace to you" recipe and I was worried about it attracting moisture, but it didn't either.
It isn't hard to make, but take good notes and follow them. I thought I'd screwed it up, the oil and lye just stayed powdery mostly, it just barely clung together after heated/cooked. After adding the warm solvents in order, it turned out just fine.

 

[Feelin' Soapy]

Update: So the good news is that it's now week 3 and the M&P embeds are no longer sweating! Whew!

 

[Piranga]

I don't want to shrink wrap. I'd give up on M&P embeds if that's the only way to avoid sweaty soap.
There's no controllable "dry situation" -- I'm in the Pacific Northwest! Rain happens

That's not rain, it's liquid sunshine! I was born in PNW, farmed in the redwoods, miss the region more than I can say . . .