Well, this is a first for me. A few minutes after I poured this newly made soap into the mold, it began to crack and then "erupt". Clearly, it overheated, but I can't figure out why exactly. My process is the same as it normally is...except I needed to reformulate the base oils since I was out of palm oil, which I usually use at ~20%. So, I increased the olive and coconut oils and added a little beeswax. I'll provide the recipe below.
I have two questions:
1) any idea what may have caused the overheating? Is the formulation ok?
2) will the soap still be usable?
1,000 g batch
Olive oil - 40%
Coconut oil - 35%
Sunflower oil - 10%
Walnut oil - 5%
Castor oil - 5%
Palm oil - 3%
Beeswax - 2%
Lye concentration = 30.5%
Water as % of oils = 33.28%
Super fat = 3%
Added - 1 tbsp clay (Fuller's Earth) to lye solution
Added - 3 tsp essential oils at trace (1 tsp each of cedarwood, pine, and orange EOs)
I didn't measure the oil or lye temperatures...but I never do, and this has never happened before. Adding beeswax is new for me...but at only 2% I wouldn't have thought it would make this happen...but could that be it?
I have two questions:
1) any idea what may have caused the overheating? Is the formulation ok?
2) will the soap still be usable?
1,000 g batch
Olive oil - 40%
Coconut oil - 35%
Sunflower oil - 10%
Walnut oil - 5%
Castor oil - 5%
Palm oil - 3%
Beeswax - 2%
Lye concentration = 30.5%
Water as % of oils = 33.28%
Super fat = 3%
Added - 1 tbsp clay (Fuller's Earth) to lye solution
Added - 3 tsp essential oils at trace (1 tsp each of cedarwood, pine, and orange EOs)
I didn't measure the oil or lye temperatures...but I never do, and this has never happened before. Adding beeswax is new for me...but at only 2% I wouldn't have thought it would make this happen...but could that be it?
Attachments
Last edited: