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Well the soap has been sitting on the raw pine dish now for a few hours and not a hint of blackening. I think I have found that the problem was the oak. For what ever reason, the oak I was using for a soap dish reacted like it did, so I won't be using it any more for my soap. The pine dish...

Thanks CanaDawn. I think the oak dishes will be replaced with pine dishes in the future. I also will resist the temptation to use my soaps after only 4 weeks and see if I can't get them to cure for a few months more.

Lots of great advice here. Thank you all. I have gone into full experimentation stage here trying to incorporate as much of the advice given as possible. I put a bar of commercial soap on another of my oak soap dishes and it did discolour. Not quite as bad as my home made soap, but discolour...

I'm pretty sure I made it right. It was a simple recipe, only 3 ingredients, and I used an electronic scale to make measurements correct. I will put a bar of commercial soap on another one of the wood soap dishes and see if it gets the same reaction when wet. Thanks.

Thanks all for the input. I tried the wet wash cloth experiment and it did not produce the blackening effect. The oak dish looked just like a wet dish, so the water (we are on a well here) seems to not be the culprit. The blackening only appears on the part of the wood dish that has come in...

Thanks for the reply CanaDawn. So this is something common with cold process olive oil soaps? As I mentioned, this it the first batch I have made. I'll put a bar or two away as well and let them cure for a month more or so and see if that makes a difference as well.

I made my first batch of soap ever 4 weeks ago and was excited about getting to try it today. It is a simple cold process 100% olive oil soap. I placed the bar of soap, after using it, on a new oak soap dish and noticed that where the soap touched the wood, it turned blackish. Is this a...