adding lye to a rebatch

[Singto]

As a newbie, I now have a few kg of fails and want to rebatch it all, all of it is too soft so how much lye do I add to guarantee it cures hard?

 

[DeeAnna]

You need to provide your full recipe (all ingredients, all in weights) and an outline of your soap making method. There is no way to know at this point whether adding more lye is a reasonable solution to your problem.

Just because soap is soft does NOT mean it needs more lye.

 

[TheGecko]

Agree with @DeeAnna. There are a lot of reasons that your soap could be soft...from a recipe that is high in soft oils, a recipe that is high in certain butters, from too much SuperFat, too much water (or other liquid), too much scent, the added amount of liquid from dispersing colorants and so on and so forth. Sometimes...time is all your soap needs.

 

[lsg]

I would put some of the grated soap, along with a little water in a slow cooker and cook it for a while on low. That should get rid of some of the excess liquid. If you got your calculation right in the first place, I don't think you will need additional lye.

 

[Singto]

I would put some of the grated soap, along with a little water in a slow cooker and cook it for a while on low. That should get rid of some of the excess liquid. If you got your calculation right in the first place, I don't think you will need additional lye.

Gotcha I'm doing that today added a bit of beeswax and Tumeric 1.600 kg still have 3.6 kg to rebatch so I'll just take baby steps and do little batches and work it out slowly. cheers.

thank you so much fo

You need to provide your full recipe (all ingredients, all in weights) and an outline of your soap making method. There is no way to know at this point whether adding more lye is a reasonable solution to your problem.

Just because soap is soft does NOT mean it needs more lye.

I'm going to try and cook out the liquid and do a small rebatch add 2-3% beeswax or sodium lactate and see how it go's.

 

[TheGecko]

I sincerely hope that you are only making soap for personal use and have no intent to sell to the public. The reason I say this because without knowing why your soap is soft to begin with, all you are doing is creating more problems.