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Sauboon

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If someone was going to get lye pockets in there soap when would it occur? The next day or days later or a week later from making the soap? I don't have lye pockets but yesterday I made a batch using coconut oil olive, palm, castor, and shea, The liquid solution was green tea and I put some other herbal tea in at light trace. I stirred the soap by hand faster than normal and it reached trace in 15 mins. This made me think that it was false trace. Is there something wrong?
 
I heard that it usually takes 1 hour when stirring by hand. That is what it usually takes my soap to reach trace but this happened in 15 mins. After stirring quickly
 
It varies so much by recipe. Mind you, if you told me that recipe was 100% olive oil and it reached trace that quickly stirring by hand...I'd have to assume you have the forearm strength of a gorilla. But many oils/additives can change trace and speed it up, sometimes by quite a bit.

You're probably just fine.
 
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