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Hello Arimara. Several weeks ago, I followed your advice and started all over again with this small batch. I scooped contents out of the mold, put in a pot on the stove and mixed until everything was liquid again. Poured the contents in a mixing bowl and this time I mixed for at least 15...

Thanks Arimara for your suggestion. Will give it another day or two; if no change, I'll heat it up some, then stir it up some more.

Thanks for your reply. Concerning olive oil and "false trace", I guess that makes sense.

Here's what my "troubling batch" looks like, 7 days in the mold. At the top of each cavity, it is extremely "liquidy"; but at the bottom, it looks like its starting to solidify. I agree with you: think my problem was false trace, and that I'll just have to be patient and give it some more...

I did use a silicone mold. Concerning the gel phase, that may have contributed to my problem. Just came across some notes I some time last year when I was doing some research on cold process soap. It's my understanding that the more water you use in your batch, the quicker the soap will gel...

Revisiting my soap calculator (SoapCalc.net) the lye concentration for this batch was just shy of 34% (33.984). www.SOAPMEISTER.blogspot.com

LYE = 0.74 oz WATER = 1.42 oz

I'm fairly new to soapmaking......made my first batch in Dec/2019. I recently created a very small batch (4 bars) of cold process, 100% olive oil (5.68 oz), and I added to it 0.32 oz of bergamot essential oil. I always super fat at 5%; and with this batch I used 25% water. Here's my problem...