Insulating coconut oil soap

[Chaiat5]

We love coconut oil in our soaps and one is 100% coconut oil with 25-% superfat. We used smaller, individual moulds once and they turned out a lovely milky white. Another time, we used a loaf mould and it was not as white/milky. A third time, we used a blue mica and it was cute, but there was a crack at the top. (We insulated with towels.)

Question: Should I insulate a pure coconut oil soap? I was told that it heats up anyway. Or should I just spray the top with rubbing alcohol and cover it?

PS: I should be packing and not making soap!!!

 

[artemis]

No need to insulate coconut oil soap, in my experience, especially in a loaf mold.

 

[Chaiat5]

Thank you! The first time we made it, it was winter and the kitchen was terribly chilly. It’s like a furnace now that it’s June – the last soap cracked at the top.

 

[Blufuz]

Coconut oil soap really easily goes through gel phase which makes soap darker; I just made some and even in cavity molds it started to darken in the center! If you want to keep it milky white, maybe put it in the fridge/freezer

In winter, I usually leave it outside

 

[Chaiat5]

Thanks so much @Blufuz I got it milky white once … I now realise that 2 things worked in my favour: it was winter and I used smaller/individual moulds. I kept wondering why I wasn’t able to replicate it

 

[AliensrReal]

I thought the title said “insulting coconut oil soap” and I was curious to see if that made it nicer.