Brown liquid ozzing from soap

[Sauboon]

What is the brown liquid coming from my soap? It sat overnight before
cutting. In the morning there was brown liquid coming from the soap. What could this be?

 

[oldragbagger]

My guess would be its one of the oils.

I have experienced oil oozing on the first day before (although not brown). But the second day it had reabsorbed into the soap and the soap proceeded to cure just fine. Maybe give it a day or two and see what happens.

 

[dagmar88]

:wink: You where the one with the lye turning brown when the water was added, right? And you said your soap turned a dark tan without adding coloring?
Since you haven't figured out what went wrong in the first place (the only thing I can think of it that your lye wasn't suitable for making soap) I think this question will be hard to answer.
Maybe you could post your recipe (plus brand of lye) here, that way it's easier to help out...

 

[ChrissyB]

Is this the batch of soap with the lye water that turned brown?

 

[Sauboon]

ozzing brown stuff from my soap

I found out it was the spoon. It was a dark colored wooden spoon. I made some more lye and the spoon darken it. Then I used another spoon and it was fine. You think it could be lye pockets. Meaning the dark color. I live in saudi and the only lye I can get is called u do

 

[Sauboon]

Yes it definately was the spoon. I tested it out. What does lye pockets look like?

 

[dagmar88]

Lye pockets haven't got anything to do with color. They're 'holes' in your soap that contain lye that hasn't mixed with your oils.

 

[Guest]

Does the liquid zap you if you ? To test you touch the oil with your finger and touch the tip of your tongue. If it zaps like a 9 volt battery , it is lye heavy.

Kitn

 

[Jamn!]

Did you add any honey or milk to your soap?