Do you temper your soap?

[max_ime]

(from my original thread : http://www.soapmakingforum.com/showthread.php?t=46212)

There is another thing I changed I did add deodorized cocoa butter as 5 %of the oils. It was my first time using cocoa butter for making soap. I just melted the butter a bit in advance, like 5-20 min and then I took it off the heat source and I added it to the crock pot when the soap was fully gelled and ready for SF.

I Wonder if it matters if the cocoa butter was too cold in comparison the the soap. I know cocoa butter to be ULTRA capricious when it comes to making chocolate, you have to temper cocoa butter and chocolate if you want it to have that glossy finish and that right texture. If the chocolate is (Not brought up to a certain temperature and let to cool down until a certain temp. and then heated again till it reaches another temp. and then held at that temp) then it just crystalizes in the wrong crystal form when it cools down to room temp so it has a more crumble texture, no snap, is not shiny and has different spots of different tones of colors. So I Wonder do guys temper your soap when using butters or temper your butters before adding them?

 

[coffeetime]

Nope. I use cocoa butter and put my soap through gel via CPOP. Comes out lovely and hard and glossy.

 

[lsg]

I don't temper my soap, but sometimes my soap has temper tantrums. Sorry, I couldn't resist.:razz:

 

[Crombie]

Tempering Soap

I HP. While my soap is cooking, I put my SF, such as cocoa butter or mango butter, in a small pyrex dish and set that in a small pan of water on LOW on my stove. It is always ready to add at the end of the cook and plays nicer since it is warm.