A VERY STRANGE PHENOMENON!!!

[dcornett]

Let me just say this is a first for me, now I've only been making soap for a couple years, but I've made bookoos of soap in that time and I've never had any do this yet. I used my regular recipe with lard, oo, po, co and castor I scented it with ss's summer sorbet and grapefruit (blend) which was a first for me, but so was the colorant that I used; flamingo mica (which I love ) The soap was solid pink when I poured it in the mold, but it sat in log form for a few days before I had a chance to slice it, and when I did I was very startled to see a pretty yellow center running through the entire length of the log. It had somehow changed from pink to yellow...but then even more strange it started changing before my eyes. So I grabbed my camera and got a few pics, but by the time I finished it had all changed back to solid pink.

Has anybody seen this happen before? Is this not totally wild? :shock:





These bars are completely pink now with no visible signs of ever being anything else. Any explanations?

 

[Hazel]

I have no idea but I'm curious to hear if someone has an explanation.

Your soap looks wonderful and I agree that's pretty wild that it happened. Too bad the yellow center didn't stay. People would have been wondering how you got a yellow center in pink soap and it would have been a great color combo for summer sorbet and grapefruit.

 

[dcornett]

I totally agree, it would have been awesome if it hadn't changed back, and it had already gotten darker before I could get the camera and snap some pics. But I still ended up with a soap that smells devine.

 

[Relle]

Love the colour , pity it changed back so quick.

 

[Dragonkaz]

That is interesting ... it sure looked great during the process and I'm sure it still does as a pink soap!

 

[sandyfootfarm]

My pumice soap was dark grey on the inside and light pink outside, I thought it had gelled before I cut it. I now think it was just the colour of the pumice when still very wet because it changed to a uniform pink all over after a few days.

 

[Jezzy]

Wow!!! Pretty cool! I hope someone can explain that!

 

[saltydog]

Wow, that's really odd, but definitely a cool sort of odd!
Your soaps are beautiful, BTW, VERY lovely shape and pink color.

 

[soapbuddy]

Sounds like the soap started to oxidize and then changed color. Pink Sugar, for example, will start out yellow. When you cut it, it will turn to brown.

 

[KD]

I had something similar happen when I used rattanjot root powder to color some lavender soap. It was seriously the color of a mud puddle before it started changing from the outside inwards to a dark, murky purple. Same thing - purple on the outside with mud puddle inside. I was GLAD to see the change. Yours is just very cool either way.

 

[dcornett]

Thanks everybody, this one was just so unusual I had to share it LOL! I've had many soaps change color on me, usually from light to dark and I'm a little familiar with oxidation, but to go from pink to yellow (before being exposed to air) that was a new one on me...and then go back to pink again in a matter of minutes after being exposed to air. It was just plain wild!

 

[Lynnz]

Wow this is twilight zone soap :0) but very beautiful twilight soap at that LOL cant offer any helpful suggestions but would wonder if it had to do with the colouring maybe?????

 

[Bama]

I had a strange thing like that happen a month ago when I was making Drakkar fo soap. I was tryng to make blue soap and it looked blue when I poured it up. When I unmolded it it looked like sage green. When I cut it it was a slight ring of the green around the outside egde and the center was almost pink. So much for my man's soap bar.

 

[dcornett]

Bama-wow, not good for a mans soap LOL but strange things do seem to happen to our soaps sometimes.

Lyn-I'm 97% sure it has to do with the colorant I used, because this was my first time using it. I really can't wait to see how it does next time. I'll have my camera ready!

 

[llineb]

Could it have gelled in the center only and when it was cut the oxygen in the air stopped the process?...sounds good anyway right?

Love the soap! I have that mica but have only used it in M&P. Good to know it stays pink in CP.

 

[dcornett]

LOL! I've had partial gel before , but this was nothing like that. (sounds good though)

 

[honor435]

thats odd, I did have one start out as a nice purple turn to green, how weird is that?and it stayed purple for months.

 

[dcornett]

Yep, that's pretty wierd.

 

[Sibi]

I had a soap do a similar thing but in reverse. The middle color was the color the soap finally ended up being. Never did figure out what the heck happened. Colors just morph sometimes in soapmaking, there is no rhyme or reason. If there are rules, we just aren't aware of them yet, that's what I figure anyways. Here are a couple of pics:

 

[Hazel]

That's a gorgeous color! What did you use for color?

Thanks.