Carrot Soap

Vicky1225 · Jun 7, 2021

Hi everyone,
I'm new here and new for soap making.
I made carrots soap and it was hard to get it out of mold, after 42hrs placed it in the freezer for few hours, I manged to un mold it, bur later at night start sweating, I thought because of humidity, this morning was fine. I used canola oil, olive oil, coconut oil, castrol oil, cocoabuter. Used frozen carrots instead of water to mix lye

earlene · Jun 8, 2021

Your carrot soap looks good. The metal rack you have it sitting on, though, is not a good idea. Also, that lovely table runner below the rack could end up stained if some bits of carrot soap fall through the rack and sit a long time on the runner.

It is safer to put your fresh soap on top of some plastic mesh or parchment paper or baking paper or non-stained wooden racks. Metal can contribute to oxidation of fats and lead to rancidity.

lsg · Jun 8, 2021

Your soap looks very nice. Did you use any fragrance oil in your soap? Sometimes that will leach out of soap; but will usually be re-absorbed.

dibbles · Jun 8, 2021

Your soap is a very pretty color.

Earlene is right, you want to move your soap off the metal racks. I had some that were sold as being stainless steel that looked like yours, and my soaps developed DOS quickly in a grid pattern that matched the racks they were sitting on. As for the sweating, it was probably just the soap returning to room temperature after being in the freezer, although if your humidity is high right now that could be a factor as well.