bryas1728
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Currently I am trying to get the color of the Steelers football team into a soap and just when I thought everything was going to cooperate my Yellow Oxide turned to a gray and the Black Oxide stayed black. It looked fine in the mold but the day after I took the soap out and cut into bars the yellow turned. Heavy Sigh, :cry:
To infuse my oxides I mixed 1 1/2 tsp of black oxide in a 1/2 cup of my melted oils and 2 1/4 tsp of yellow oxide in a 1/2 cup of my melted oils, I mixed well so there were no lumps. Since I was separating my 5 pound soap batch (2.5 per bowl) I added the black to one bowl and the yellow to another bowl.
I have a vertical mold (from Brambleberry) with a divider and I filled both
cavities with my colored soap pulled and twisted to divider to get a swirl. Everything looked great in the mold... my yellow was yellow and my black was black. It should have been perfect..right? Wrong!! When I took the mold apart the yellow was not so yellow and when I cut the bars the yellow started to turn gray about 6 hours out of the mold.
Any advise/help/thoughts on what to do now? Could I grate the bars down add to a new batch of soap? or should I just re-batch the whole soap batch and can I do anything to lighten this up? I am at a total loss,
Any help would be so appreciated
To infuse my oxides I mixed 1 1/2 tsp of black oxide in a 1/2 cup of my melted oils and 2 1/4 tsp of yellow oxide in a 1/2 cup of my melted oils, I mixed well so there were no lumps. Since I was separating my 5 pound soap batch (2.5 per bowl) I added the black to one bowl and the yellow to another bowl.
I have a vertical mold (from Brambleberry) with a divider and I filled both
cavities with my colored soap pulled and twisted to divider to get a swirl. Everything looked great in the mold... my yellow was yellow and my black was black. It should have been perfect..right? Wrong!! When I took the mold apart the yellow was not so yellow and when I cut the bars the yellow started to turn gray about 6 hours out of the mold.
Any advise/help/thoughts on what to do now? Could I grate the bars down add to a new batch of soap? or should I just re-batch the whole soap batch and can I do anything to lighten this up? I am at a total loss,
Any help would be so appreciated