Chocolate soap - disappointment

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Hello everybody,

About a month ago, I decided to make some chocolate soap (for the novelty value really). It looks beautiful, just like dark chocolate and smells like chocolate. I decided to try it today and, what a disappointment, there is virtually no lather. What little lather there is, is brown but it washes off when you rinse your hands. I am puzzled as to why there is no lather. Soapcalc gives it a bubbly value of 34. Could it be the real chocolate that I added? Here is my recipe for 500g:

coconut oil 25%
palm kernel oil 20%
olive oil 45%
cocoa butter 5%
castor oil 5%
5% SF

Additives:
1 tablesp. cocoa powder
1 tablesp. clay
20g dark chocolate (melted in the warm oils)
4 teasp. chocolate FO.

As I said, it looks and smells lovely but it is a great disappointment. Can any of you enlighten me as to why this happened? Thanks a lot.

 

[shunt2011]

Maye it just needs a bit more time. I make a recipe very similar and it's got a lovely lather. Though I've only used cocoa powder not melted chocolate. It looks okay.

 

[judymoody]

With that % of PKO, CO, castor and cocoa butter, it should lather like crazy. Maybe it needs to cure a bit longer?

 

[savonierre]

I too think let is cure some more, the older the soap is the better it gets imho..

 

[PinkCupcake]

In addition to the 5% cocoa butter, you also have the cocoa butter in the 20g of dark chocolate. I don't know if that would be enough to inhibit lathering, but it's something to take into account in the future.