dillsandwitch
Well-Known Member
Okay so its been a while (several months) since I've had a chance to make soap. I got a spare 2 hours to myself today and decided to make some loaves. I made 4 loaves with fragrances that I have used in the past and all behaved.
The trouble I'm having is in the loaves I made today I can see tiny brown spots all throughout the loaf. I haven't had this issue before so I'm wondering what caused it.
Recipe:
60% Tallow, 25% RBO, 10% CO, 5% Castor. 2% SF
Additives: SL, Salt, Sugar, Cow milk powder.
I did soap a little hotter than I usually do as I was limited with time and didn't let my oils cool down as much as I usually do. But they weren't so hit that I couldn't comfortably stick my finger in them and not get burned. I used my master-batched lye and ice cubes for the water so there was a pretty big temp difference between lye and oils.
I usually just had stir in the FO but today as I was only going for single coloured soaps I added colours to the batter and then FO and stick blended the crap out of it till it was at a mediumish trace. Again I usually only go to a very thin trace before separating out and colouring.
Any suggestions on what caused this would be great. I'll try to get a pick up in a couple hours once I take them out of the oven. I also got partial gel so I jammed them in the oven at 75 deg Celsius to try to force complete get.
TIA
Dill
The trouble I'm having is in the loaves I made today I can see tiny brown spots all throughout the loaf. I haven't had this issue before so I'm wondering what caused it.
Recipe:
60% Tallow, 25% RBO, 10% CO, 5% Castor. 2% SF
Additives: SL, Salt, Sugar, Cow milk powder.
I did soap a little hotter than I usually do as I was limited with time and didn't let my oils cool down as much as I usually do. But they weren't so hit that I couldn't comfortably stick my finger in them and not get burned. I used my master-batched lye and ice cubes for the water so there was a pretty big temp difference between lye and oils.
I usually just had stir in the FO but today as I was only going for single coloured soaps I added colours to the batter and then FO and stick blended the crap out of it till it was at a mediumish trace. Again I usually only go to a very thin trace before separating out and colouring.
Any suggestions on what caused this would be great. I'll try to get a pick up in a couple hours once I take them out of the oven. I also got partial gel so I jammed them in the oven at 75 deg Celsius to try to force complete get.
TIA
Dill