"Help" would've been an easier title... but I see it was taken already : )
First off, hello! (waves) lurker posting a question for the first time!
I'm making a batch of soap tomorrow. Because of inventory shortages, and wanting to use a new "butter" from BB, I've had to re-figure my tested and true recipe. This recipe has little semblance to my trusty rusty — notably, more hard oils than I generally use.
Question:
When hoping to make a slightly complex design using a lot of hard oils... is it better to soap warmer so the hard oils stay in a melted state longer?
Sorry if this is a totally idiotic newb question, but its suddenly and fully "fall" here, and I'm soaping at MUCH colder ambient temps all of a sudden. Raw ingredients that used to be squishy are suddenly much more opaque and firm.
I'm using BB's "coffee butter" which I have come to learn is "Sweet Almond Oil, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, Coffee Seed Oil"... but not knowing how to run this through soapcalc, it was advised to "Pick the option for Crisco or another type of shortening. Since they both use hydrogenated vegetable oils that will get you close to the SAP value."
As a newb, I'm sure you know my brain is SWIMMING in formulating, tweaking, and reformulating in soapcalc, and on a good day, I'm more than a bit overwhelmed.
I've finally settled on this recipe (attached) which uses what I have available at the moment. But upon reading the bottle of my FO and learning it accelerates (🙄great), I'm now wondering if my usual soaping temp (115°) is too cool for so many hard oils.
THANK YOU!!!
First off, hello! (waves) lurker posting a question for the first time!
I'm making a batch of soap tomorrow. Because of inventory shortages, and wanting to use a new "butter" from BB, I've had to re-figure my tested and true recipe. This recipe has little semblance to my trusty rusty — notably, more hard oils than I generally use.
Question:
When hoping to make a slightly complex design using a lot of hard oils... is it better to soap warmer so the hard oils stay in a melted state longer?
Sorry if this is a totally idiotic newb question, but its suddenly and fully "fall" here, and I'm soaping at MUCH colder ambient temps all of a sudden. Raw ingredients that used to be squishy are suddenly much more opaque and firm.
I'm using BB's "coffee butter" which I have come to learn is "Sweet Almond Oil, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, Coffee Seed Oil"... but not knowing how to run this through soapcalc, it was advised to "Pick the option for Crisco or another type of shortening. Since they both use hydrogenated vegetable oils that will get you close to the SAP value."
As a newb, I'm sure you know my brain is SWIMMING in formulating, tweaking, and reformulating in soapcalc, and on a good day, I'm more than a bit overwhelmed.
I've finally settled on this recipe (attached) which uses what I have available at the moment. But upon reading the bottle of my FO and learning it accelerates (🙄great), I'm now wondering if my usual soaping temp (115°) is too cool for so many hard oils.
THANK YOU!!!
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