Does 100% coconut soap always tingle a bit

[LuckyStar]

My coconut soap is wigging me out a bit. Its a week or so old and it isn't zapping, but it does leave my tongue with a bit of a tingle that, if left on the soap for 5 or more seconds, moves into the realm of uncomfortable.

I used a 20% super fat so i cant imagine its lye heavy, cut one of the end pieces up and no lye pockets present. None of my other soaps ever had the tingle i'm feeling outside of a 48 hour window. Just curious if other people have experienced this with their 100% coconut oil soaps

I think i need soap lickers anonymous or something

 

[judymoody]

You may just need to give it more time. Did it gel? Ungelled will take longer to saponify.

 

[LuckyStar]

You may just need to give it more time. Did it gel? Ungelled will take longer to saponify.

You know, i could have sworn i gelled it, but my journal says its ungelled, so that very well could be it, silly me XD.

I don't think i've ever had a truly lye heavy soap. I've heard it described as a snap of an elastic band or a nine volt battery, worst ive felt is this dull tingle.

Is it weird i sort of want to get zapped? Just so i know for sure what it feels like? lol

 

[Seawolfe]

Is it weird i sort of want to get zapped? Just so i know for sure what it feels like? lol

Oh that's easy - after pouring your CP soap into the mold, wait till your soap has firmed up a bit, wet a finger, touch it to the soap in an inconspicuous place and dab that finger on your tongue.

They aint lying - you cant mistake the zap

 

[judymoody]

Did you use a fragrance? Fragances that contain eugenol (it's naturally occurring in essential oils like clove and in some floral scents as well as being present in many artificial fragrance oils) will give you a bit of a tingle if you lick your soap.

 

[LuckyStar]

Did you use a fragrance? Fragances that contain eugenol (it's naturally occurring in essential oils like clove and in some floral scents as well as being present in many artificial fragrance oils) will give you a bit of a tingle if you lick your soap.

Its scented with Energy from BB, which if i recall was in one of other soaps that was suspiciously tingly, hmm

 

[DeeAnna]

Zap is immediate. What I mean by that is remember back to when you last burned your tongue with hot food or coffee? That kind of immediate.

The bad taste you're getting is most likely just that you're tasting the CO soap. People who make tooth soap avoid using CO in their tooth soap recipes for this reason. Or the fragrance, as Judy suggested.

 

[CanaDawn]

I used a 20% super fat so i cant imagine its lye heavy, cut one of the end pieces up and no lye pockets present. None of my other soaps ever had the tingle i'm feeling outside of a 48 hour window. Just curious if other people have experienced this with their 100% coconut oil soaps

Not here, with 100% and 5%SF, even after only 48 hrs. Sounds like it's the fragrance.

 

[Bex1982]

Ive had that too. I kept thinking it was lye heavy because ive never licked a battery or felt a zap. Only burn/tingles after about 5 secs of tasting the soap. It never burns my skin or anything. I did consider that my fo's or eo's could be the culprit. Maybe the mix of fo and co.

 

[judymoody]

I don't recall Energy having any tingle to it.

I suspect that your soap isn't done saponifying. Give it a few more days and try again.

 

[Bex1982]

Im wimpy so I usually make my husband zap test since he's put his tongue on many a battery lol

 

[pai]

Oh the same thing happened to me! in the beginning i was making only 100% CO soap and even after 1 week i felt what you describe when testing. so i threw away 2 batches! painful...
Then i posted this same question here and thanks to everyones answers i realized it was not a zap i was feeling as it comes a second or two after touching the soap (plus with 20%SF it is almost impossible to be lye heavy..).
So it is just the CO. All my CO soaps are the same and they are wonderful and i am so sorry i threw away so many of them.....

 

[btz]

This happened to my salt bar too, even though it's only 30% co (the rest is rbo). I didn't zap test, but after i wash my hand with it, I had a slight burning sensation on my skin even after 6 weeks. I didn't know when it's stop doing that, but after 4 months the soap is great.

Don't throw away your supposedly failed batch of soap so soon. Try curing it for longer, they might surprised you. Even if it's end up to be too drying for your skin, you can still use it as laundry soap.

I used one of my too-dry-for-skin soap to wash my yoga mat .

 

[Bex1982]

I've tossed or rebatched some soaps too, same as you guys, the tingly came seconds later. I figured there must be a little left. I found a year old soap and tested it, it did the same thing. For a while I thought it was my new lye because it's the "super pure" beads. But I'm glad I'm not alone with this co thing. I'm highly against chucking any sort of soap!