Dent in soap
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Wow, the green one is actually kinda cool looking. Like a little candy dish.
I can only guess that it is water evaporation causing the sink hole. Someone with more experience will likely have some valid info for you though.
I've never seen anything like that. How much water is in your recipe? What are you doing with the soap once it comes out of the mold?
719 grams of water, 297 grams of lye
3189 grams of oils and other ingredients
It might be best for someone to help you if you post your entire recipe. What were the 'other ingredients' and how much you used, as well as your lye concentration. Putting a basic recipe through a soap calculator gave me some very different amounts for the lye and water.
By any chance when the soap came out of the mold, did you try to speed up cure by putting it in a dehydrator? Or something like that?
By any chance when the soap came out of the mold, did you try to speed up cure by putting it in a dehydrator? Or something like that?
I’ve never seen anything like it. As above, post your recipe and process as well as additives.
Castor oil 150 grams
Coconut oil 450 grams
Crisco 337 grams
Palm oil (hydrogenated) 690 grams
Stearic Acid 225 grams
Soybean oul (hydrogensted) 337 grams
Salt 150 grams
Sugar 350 grams
Water 125 grams
Propilene glycol 450 grams
Your recipe seems very unusual and the water amounts you gave in posts 4 and 7 are not the same. Why did you use propylene glycol? I looked it up and learned that it is used for M&P, but I’ve never heard of it being used in CP soap. I’ve also never seen soap that looks anything like yours.
Were you trying to make a transparent soap? The propylene glycol tells me you were and could be part of the answer to the sinking
If you were baking a souffle, I would say that it 'dropped'. All I can think of is that the sugar caused your soap to volcano...push soap to the outside with an air bubble in the middle that slowly cooled and allowed your soap to settle. The color difference...not uncommon as some colors to morph.
Todd Ziegler
Circle Z soaps
I think your problem is with your recipe and the process. You might consider doing a cold process soap instead of hot and I would definitely get rid of the glycol and ethanol.
What kind of silicon molds are you using that you need your soap to be so fluid?
Glycol and ethanol are usually used to make transparent soap and it is possible your ratios are off
penelopejane
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This recipe isn’t the same as the one you originally posted. What amount of lye did you use? We can’t put it through a soapcalc to see where you went wrong without the entire recipe although I think cmzaha is right here.
Lots of people here make HP soap and no one I know of uses alcohols except for transparent soap. Some use yoghurt to make it easier to pour.
I have re batchedView attachment 44277
Lye 297 grams and 719 grams water. The alcohol melts the soap. Not using glycol or eta to make transparent or translucent soap.
I see that you are using mostly hard oils. Why not get rid of the glycol and use some more liquid oils? Wouldn't that make your soap more fluid? Stearic acid and Soy wax are both pretty gosh-darned hard.
Thank you!
Thank you all for your support!
Last night I rebatched the dented soap and and here are the results
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penelopejane
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Lovely soap save!!
i forgot to put your recipe thru a soap calc today sorry. Will do tomorrow. But you are using about 10% stearic acid? Most use it about 2% and find it makes soap hard. Try it and see if you maybe have to go to 3% but no more.
That's one of the prettiest rebatch soaps I've seen - good save!
