rosyrobyn
Well-Known Member
Does anyone know what happened here? The batter looked nice and smooth when I poured, popped it in the oven for about an hour at 170F then turned it off. I peeked in several hours later and this is what I saw:
I recently used a similar recipe to this one and it had a partial gel when left on the countertop so I thought I would try CPOP to prevent that. I forgot to preheat the oven so I think I overcompensated by leaving it in the oven with the heat on.
Is the soap still safe to be used? Is it just an aesthetic thing or should I rebatch? It doesn't zap.
Confetti it is then. It was sticky coming out of the mold compared to my other batches that all popped out nice and smooth. I'll give this recipe another try today and skip the CPOP. I'd rather have a partial gel than this weird soap.
I can't tell you why I knew about the "170 degree for an hour or more" CPOP method early on in my soaping career, but I did and I used it for a number of batches. Finally stopped after realizing it was causing more problems than it was solving.
I'm impatient. I CPOP. I like the look of a gelled soap. (And, burning your hands on unsaponified soap really sux!) I turn the oven on to "warm" when I start my gathering of supplies. I turn it off just after I fill the mold. This is about the only time I use the digital thermometer. I check the oven temp. If it is too hot, I leave the soap out for a little while until the oven cools off. But usually, I just put the mold on a cookie sheet and cover it with a box or some plastic wrap, put it in the oven and then go to bed. I've only had a problem one time and that's the first time I tried to "CPOP" my soap. And did it completely wrong. I thought CPOP meant to cook the soap in the oven. So I poured it, put it in the oven and it volcanoed. Burning soap stinks and it's a PITA to clean up, although my oven was sparkling. Lesson well learned.
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