jarvan
Well-Known Member
I, in all my tired and infinite wisdom decided that before bed this morning (have to work the night shift this week), I would measure out the next batch of soap I need to make. I have to get it made so it's usable in about 2 weeks.
So, I opened up my trial version of SM3 (awesome by the way) and concocted a nice bar that included PO, CO, OO, Castor, Mango. I got the superfat set and set my additives which were coconut milk powder, evaporated milk, banana puree, FO, sodium lactate, and if time permitted, a little canary liquid color.
So far, so good. I got my lye amount and the water amount needed and commenced to mixing my solution. There's nothing wrong with that now, is there? :roll:
I came back to the computer and thought, "Self...you are an idiot." I had not yet seen fit to whether or not I had the right amount of any one of the oils I entered. Well, I knew I had mango butter and olive oil in ok amounts, but the castor and coconut were in question. I had my question answered when I emptied my vessel of CO and found I was about 3 oz. short. Oh, dang...now what can I sub. NOTHING! I had nothing of a close enough SAP.
So, I spent the next two hours (primarily because I am tired as heck and a bit off my rocker by now) and recalculated the most ridiculous recipe just to get back to the lye solution values I had previously. After some serious juggling, I came up with a cocoa butter-heavy recipe ( I know...go ahead and roll your eyes at this horrible waste, but I never use the dang cocoa butter I buy, so no time like the present)that will either make me or break me on this tropical madness that I have embarked upon. I am using coconut milk powder and coconut FO.
I am set to do the one process that eludes me, CPHP, only because of my time constraints.
This endeavor shall re-commence when I am awake about 5pm. I am slowly warming my ginormous chunk of cocoa butter, which I figure will take the better part of the day :shock:. Everything else is measured out and covered. If any of that was measured wrong (checked twice out of fear and because my one lucid brain cell was afraid of making another mistake), I guess i will have 3 pounds of glop.
Fingers crossed everyone!
So, I opened up my trial version of SM3 (awesome by the way) and concocted a nice bar that included PO, CO, OO, Castor, Mango. I got the superfat set and set my additives which were coconut milk powder, evaporated milk, banana puree, FO, sodium lactate, and if time permitted, a little canary liquid color.
So far, so good. I got my lye amount and the water amount needed and commenced to mixing my solution. There's nothing wrong with that now, is there? :roll:
I came back to the computer and thought, "Self...you are an idiot." I had not yet seen fit to whether or not I had the right amount of any one of the oils I entered. Well, I knew I had mango butter and olive oil in ok amounts, but the castor and coconut were in question. I had my question answered when I emptied my vessel of CO and found I was about 3 oz. short. Oh, dang...now what can I sub. NOTHING! I had nothing of a close enough SAP.
So, I spent the next two hours (primarily because I am tired as heck and a bit off my rocker by now) and recalculated the most ridiculous recipe just to get back to the lye solution values I had previously. After some serious juggling, I came up with a cocoa butter-heavy recipe ( I know...go ahead and roll your eyes at this horrible waste, but I never use the dang cocoa butter I buy, so no time like the present)that will either make me or break me on this tropical madness that I have embarked upon. I am using coconut milk powder and coconut FO.
I am set to do the one process that eludes me, CPHP, only because of my time constraints.
This endeavor shall re-commence when I am awake about 5pm. I am slowly warming my ginormous chunk of cocoa butter, which I figure will take the better part of the day :shock:. Everything else is measured out and covered. If any of that was measured wrong (checked twice out of fear and because my one lucid brain cell was afraid of making another mistake), I guess i will have 3 pounds of glop.
Fingers crossed everyone!
we'll see!
