BRIGHT PINK SPOTS!!!

[kazza38]

Hi everyone! I am learning heaps from you all. Thanks. I plan to start contributing when I learn more.
I have a strange issue right now with bright pink spots. They are appearing on soap a week or so after cutting. I clean all my equipment well and the soaps are curing in a wooden cupboard on brown cardboard. There isn't much else to tell, so it seems really weird, especially since the shade of pink isn't exactly natural - it's bright!
Cheers for any help you can share fellow soapers.
Thanks, Karen

 

[Lane]

Any pictures?

 

[cdwinsby]

And the recipe plus all ingredients added?

 

[kazza38]

The spots are happening on all sorts of soaps, not just one recipe. I will go get a closeup pic now. Ta

 

[kazza38]

Photo of pink spots....

Heres the photo. I hope it works, it's my 1st go at uploading a photo. If it doesn't work, I will redo it asap.

You can see a definite pink spot on the bottom soap and a couple of pinkish areas on the top soap. Weird huh. The only thing I can think of is finding something better than cardboard to cure them on. Any other ideas will be wonderful. Thanks everyone!!!

Cheers, Karen

 

[kazza38]

photo take two....

trying again



I don't fully comprehend this imageshack thing, so, I hope it works. This pic is small, hope you can see the dreaded pink spots. Thanks for your patience.

Karen [/list]

 

[kazza38]

Hey, I got it! The picture is working! Yay!

If anyone has seen pink spots like this before, I would love your opinion on how to avoid them. There is no link to type of soap or recipe as it is random.
I am very grateful for your help and all those fellow soapies out there willing to help out others. Thanks.

Karen 8)

 

[olga]

Are you using distilled water? We have only well water with a fair iron content in this area which reacted with the lye. The spots disappeared when I started buying the distilled.

Another time my soap had spots, I realized the cookie rack I was using to dry the soap had areas where the stainless had worn through leaving bare iron.

 

[cdwinsby]

Wow, those are bright pink!! Unfortunately I have no idea why it would happen...Olga sounds like she might be on to something though.

 

[Lane]

That is PINK! Hmmm.... I've never seen that before :?

 

[kazza38]

distilled water

Thanks Olga, that makes a whole lot of sense, but, I am using distilled water. My parents are carefully collecting rainwater for me, perhaps I will try that and see if there is any difference soon.
It's all a bit strange hey? The pink is so artificial looking.......weird.......

Cheers all......Karen

 

[IanT]

omg that looks soooo similar to my second batch i made with hibiscis and cayenne and paprika to color it !!

I think itlll be fine, its probably a floating impurity (solidified chlorine or something) in your H20 supply!?


does it moosh when you touch it or behave differently when you touch it than the rest of the soap?

could be a dye that was in something you added to the soap too...

whats the recipe?

 

[kazza38]

recipes

The photo shows my lavender soap on the top, it's just a simple olive oil soap with lavender bits in it, and the bottom one is just pure olive oil, no nothing added. This is what I made while impatiently waiting on my deliveries for all the other goodies I bought. Now I have all sorts waiting to be made up, soybean, avocado etc etc

I think I will try a different distilled water supply and also use something better than recycled cardboard to sit them on whilst curing! :?

Have a happy soapy day!

Karen