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Edit: Asian Sandalwood............not amberwood. Where on earth.....
Made what I thought was a good batch of soap....but there's a problem! The scented areas are giving off colored lather!! I just made the soap yesterday... used .75 oz in .75 lbs of batter swirled with .25 unscented for a total of 1lb (test). Realizing it might be an issue when washing my tools and the bubbles were bright yellow (it discolors to brown but starts off yellow). Tested a small cut piece and yep, yellow bubbles. I used no colorants!
I shredded it thinking I'd do a confetti soap and mix it with another lb of unscented/uncolored...but then thought I might just be wasting materials. My original test bar doesn't have colored lather but I used half the fragrance in it and it didn't start off such a bright yellow.
Has anyone had a discoloring FO cause colored lather before? And if the confetti is doing this, would I just be wasting my time mixing it half and half with uncolored ? Should I just do a microwave rebatch and call it done? Help I have more of this to make....now I'm uncertain how to use it...
Edit: Asian Sandalwood............not amberwood. Where on earth.....
Made what I thought was a good batch of soap....but there's a problem! The scented areas are giving off colored lather!! I just made the soap yesterday... used .75 oz in .75 lbs of batter swirled with .25 unscented for a total of 1lb (test). Realizing it might be an issue when washing my tools and the bubbles were bright yellow (it discolors to brown but starts off yellow). Tested a small cut piece and yep, yellow bubbles. I used no colorants!
I shredded it thinking I'd do a confetti soap and mix it with another lb of unscented/uncolored...but then thought I might just be wasting materials. My original test bar doesn't have colored lather but I used half the fragrance in it and it didn't start off such a bright yellow.
Has anyone had a discoloring FO cause colored lather before? And if the confetti is doing this, would I just be wasting my time mixing it half and half with uncolored ? Should I just do a microwave rebatch and call it done? Help I have more of this to make....now I'm uncertain how to use it...
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