penelopejane
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You can see who taught me to make perfect soap!
Thank you Irish Lass.
You can see who taught me to make perfect soap!
Thank you Irish Lass.
"Cool" honey soap - no partial gel
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@penelopejane @IrishLass Thank you both very much, that makes it clear.
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You can see who taught me to make perfect soap!
Thank you Irish Lass.
Thank you, Penelope, you are very kind!
IrishLass
How much oats should I add per pound for a honey oat recipe.Hi Danny-
1) Yes, that's the same amount of honey I like to use. The way I do it is to dilute the honey with just a little bit of water to make it less thick/viscous, then I add it to my cooled-off lye solution.
2) Yes...... Also- for what it's worth, my soaping temp is between 110 - 120 degrees F. I soap that warm because of the type of high-melt fats/butters I use in my formula, and also because I soap with a 33% lye concentration and I want my soap to achieve full gel. It won't achieve full gel with my formula if I let the temp of the batter to go below 110F, even in spite of having the honey in the mix, because adding honey to the lye water like I do eliminates its natural propensity to cause the soap batter to really heat up like it normally does if added to the batter instead of to the lye solution first.
3) Once I add the batter to the mold, I cover my mold (a wooden slab mold) with its cover then lay a few cloth diapers over the cover and put it into a preheated 110 degree oven. Once in the oven, I then turn the oven off immediately and let the soap sit there overnight unmolested.
Since you are working with an individual cavity mold, I would take Penelope's advice to place on a board, cover with plastic and cover over the plastic with towels.
IrishLass
I normally add 1 tbsp. ppo of oats. My favorite type of oatmeal to add to soap is the Earth's Best Baby Oatmeal. No scratchies.
IrishLass
IrishLass
The only GM I’ve ever used is the condensed / canned kind from next to the regular condensed milk. I freeze it ito cubes and add it in a 50 frozen GM/50 water (by weight) to my lye. Is that “cheating?” I’ve used it a few times. One of them resulted in the only partial gel I’ve ever gotten. I had no idea what it even was.
penelopejane
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If you want to avoid partial gel (which sometimes happens if you are trying to keep the soap cool) use Irish Lass' instructions above and do the split method. So easy and repeatable.
I see that this thread was started a while ago and my later posts contradict my earlier posts.
That is because I have been perfecting my methods and processes since then.
My later posts are indicative of my current process which is repeatable and easy for my new timber/thick silicone molds.
Sorry if reading through the entire thread has been confusing for some.
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I use 1/2 tbsp. PPO, but I also grind mine in a dedicated coffee grinder. (not the same as colloidal oatmeal) I like the skin feel of ground better than using whole.
^^^^A very good example of the negative consequences that can transpire when necroposting, i.e., posting questions to a long dead thread instead of starting a new thread to post a new question, with a link back to the old.
IrishLass
THank you I found it at Walmart last night.I normally add 1 tbsp. ppo of oats. My favorite type of oatmeal to add to soap is the Earth's Best Baby Oatmeal. No scratchies.
IrishLass
