ocean_soul
Well-Known Member
...that is the question. XD So I was making my first ever batch of Castile soap, and I figured I'd use goat milk as my liquid. So I add my lye to my frozen milk. One spoonful, stir, another spoonful, stir...methinks, well this is getting lame...*dumps the rest of the lye in* Stir, stir, stir like mad!
Eventually I add my lye solution to my oil. I tried to strain it but the mesh of my strainer was too fine and many fatty globs blocked it up. Hrmph. :\ Will that give my soap a higher super fat, I wonder? So I pour out the rest of the lye solution slowly and my container empties out I see it. A little white clump. Please be a saponified bit of milk fat, I says. I grab my spoon and poke!
Crunch, goes the white clump. Oh dear.
Poke poke?
Crunch, crunch, grumbles the clump.
Poke?!?!?!
Crunch!
Cue the panicking! Aaaaaaah! :crazy: I didn't have time to hot process, so I stuck my soap in the freezer and I've been preparing myself for rebatching ever since. Oh joy. :roll: Also not sure if I should make some lye solution and add that to my soap, to make up for all the stuff I lost on my strainer. I probably should have done that while my soap was still soft and zappy, huh? Oh well. Either way I can kiss my beautiful, nongelled white soap goodbye!
Eventually I add my lye solution to my oil. I tried to strain it but the mesh of my strainer was too fine and many fatty globs blocked it up. Hrmph. :\ Will that give my soap a higher super fat, I wonder? So I pour out the rest of the lye solution slowly and my container empties out I see it. A little white clump. Please be a saponified bit of milk fat, I says. I grab my spoon and poke!
Crunch, goes the white clump. Oh dear.
Poke poke?
Crunch, crunch, grumbles the clump.
Poke?!?!?!
Crunch!
Cue the panicking! Aaaaaaah! :crazy: I didn't have time to hot process, so I stuck my soap in the freezer and I've been preparing myself for rebatching ever since. Oh joy. :roll: Also not sure if I should make some lye solution and add that to my soap, to make up for all the stuff I lost on my strainer. I probably should have done that while my soap was still soft and zappy, huh? Oh well. Either way I can kiss my beautiful, nongelled white soap goodbye!