Avocado Oil Question

ewepootoo · Nov 7, 2009

I bought a bottle of Avocado Oil and made up some soap today but for some reason I have a layer of oil sitting on top of the soap in the moulds. This avocado oil is the only change to my recipe, it says it is infused in Lime oil. I put in 7% of this oil in my recipe and superfatted 9%
This looks like being my first major stuff up.Steve

wiccaronja · Nov 7, 2009

Hi Steve

Mmmh, never had that problem with Avocado oil. Maybe the soap "glue" had too hot, so that it separated?

If the oil layer does not taste as lye I would try to use the soap. But if you unsecure maybe you wish to melt it again and give it a new try.

However, it will always be soap ;-)

Good luck!
Caroline

IrishLass · Nov 7, 2009

The two times I have used avocado oil in soap, I've had a situation similar to yours. I didn't have a layer of oil sitting on the top of my soap in the mold, but my two batches made with it developed a thin, sticky, oily film on them weeks after unmolding and cutting, when they were near the end of cure, like they were sweating out fat or something.

I've had a few other (non-avocado oil) batches before that were oily in the mold, but the oil in those completely re-absorbed during cure, It was really weird that my 2 batches with avocado oil reacted in the exact opposite way by leaking oil out near the end of cure. Go figure! :?
I used it at 10% with a 5% S/F.

IrishLass