wikkedsuzanna
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Hi all!
I've been reading through other posts, and I am getting mildly conflicting info regarding how fast something traces. I have a palm-free recipe that I have used for years, just olive oil and coconut oil, with a little bit of castor oil. It's 38% water/fat ratio. Lately it's traced so fast that it's nearly solid before I can even remove the stick blender. I never even got a chance to add any FO that might've accelerated trace, so it's not that. I tried BJ's "light" olive oil when they were out of the olive oil I normally buy. That was my first experience with the fast trace. Then I bought pomace olive oil, thinking the "light" oil had some other oil added that accelerated the trace. The pomace OO also had a fast trace. Some threads that I've read say pomace accelerates trace, others say there is no difference. I've looked at other sites too. I tried a shea butter recipe to see if that made any difference, but it was still too fast of a trace to get it out of the pot. I am only using the stick blender enough to mix the solid oils into the liquid oils. I suppose next I could try a castile soap to rule out the CO. What am I missing? Thanks! Meanwhile, I'm getting a big inventory of soap dough.
I've been reading through other posts, and I am getting mildly conflicting info regarding how fast something traces. I have a palm-free recipe that I have used for years, just olive oil and coconut oil, with a little bit of castor oil. It's 38% water/fat ratio. Lately it's traced so fast that it's nearly solid before I can even remove the stick blender. I never even got a chance to add any FO that might've accelerated trace, so it's not that. I tried BJ's "light" olive oil when they were out of the olive oil I normally buy. That was my first experience with the fast trace. Then I bought pomace olive oil, thinking the "light" oil had some other oil added that accelerated the trace. The pomace OO also had a fast trace. Some threads that I've read say pomace accelerates trace, others say there is no difference. I've looked at other sites too. I tried a shea butter recipe to see if that made any difference, but it was still too fast of a trace to get it out of the pot. I am only using the stick blender enough to mix the solid oils into the liquid oils. I suppose next I could try a castile soap to rule out the CO. What am I missing? Thanks! Meanwhile, I'm getting a big inventory of soap dough.