So, interesting development!
I read for a whole day about using each of these ingredients in my soap and it seemed to me like this would be a great combination for the effects I was looking for. Then after making my two batches (one high coconut oil with a bit of shea, and one olive oil castille) I must have put in the magic search terms which led me to two forum threads saying people were having issues with this combo! Man, I thought, too bad I didn't read these threads before making my soap (but were small batches so Oh well!).
Thing is, I think I may have stumbled upon something! My high coconut oil soap did not turn out. It was a crumbly mess full of stearic mottling. But...my castille soap looks great. Pretty hard after a day and a half, and smooth as butter to cut. Of course: I can't be 100 percent sure this will be a good soap until I'm able to use it...
So>>>my thoughts are: maybe this combination of vinegar and citric don't work in a high solid oil/butter soap, but are okay in a high olive oil soap. Or maybe it has to do with the high superfat I used in my coconut oil soap.
At this point I'm not sure what is the cause of the one batch turning out versus the other not...but I am super interested in this.
I read for a whole day about using each of these ingredients in my soap and it seemed to me like this would be a great combination for the effects I was looking for. Then after making my two batches (one high coconut oil with a bit of shea, and one olive oil castille) I must have put in the magic search terms which led me to two forum threads saying people were having issues with this combo! Man, I thought, too bad I didn't read these threads before making my soap (but were small batches so Oh well!).
Thing is, I think I may have stumbled upon something! My high coconut oil soap did not turn out. It was a crumbly mess full of stearic mottling. But...my castille soap looks great. Pretty hard after a day and a half, and smooth as butter to cut. Of course: I can't be 100 percent sure this will be a good soap until I'm able to use it...
So>>>my thoughts are: maybe this combination of vinegar and citric don't work in a high solid oil/butter soap, but are okay in a high olive oil soap. Or maybe it has to do with the high superfat I used in my coconut oil soap.
At this point I'm not sure what is the cause of the one batch turning out versus the other not...but I am super interested in this.