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For those of you that are producing at scale, do you keep your lye tank temperature controlled and your oils base in a separate temperature controlled tank? I would like to have both ready to mix instead of having to melt / heat anything when it's production time. I currently use bucket warmers...

Question for @earlene and everyone else on this thread. When you master batch your lye solution do you add more water when you about to actually batch to make up for evaporation to bring to full weight? For example: if I use 324 grams of lye + 486 grams of water for a master batch solution that...

I use a water reduction. I can't pour at too thick of a trace because i'm pouring 100 individual molds at at time. Spraying with alcohol and covering doesn't always work for me.

I have tried steaming if off and it does steam off pretty nicely when it's just surface ash. But other bars seem to have it ggo much deeper, like if you cut the bar in half, the middle is also grey. I don't understand!

Yes, I feel like it's an activated charcoal issue. I use the same base for all other soaps and they do not have this problem. Maybe I should mix with iron oxide to reduce the charcoal.

Do you normally steam / wash off soda ash right after you unmold? I have tried to steam right away and i feel like it gets really messy.

what is silicone rash? This doesn't happen to my other soaps that i make in the same molds.

here is a picture @artemis @AliOop . I use a custom silicone mold that has individual cavaties. Because of the unique shape, I can't really bevel it off.

I use the same base mix for three different cold process soaps. For some reason the charcoal one has a recurring problem of coming out with what I can only describe as gray blotches. I use a custom silicon mold for my soaps so this makes it harder to insulate. It looks like soda ash, but it's...