lizflowers42
Well-Known Member
Some of you might previously remember my post about making CP soap with recycled oils that I superfatted at 1%, and I used my tried and true powder recipe and certain fabrics retained a greasy smell. So then I decided to rebatch it, adding in the subtracted weight of lye to bring it to 0%SF. Since I'm horrible at following my own advice on not using too much water, this produced a really soft bar that I shredded to help dry out quicker.
So I decided, well what the heck, lets use a new recipe and make liquid laundry soap with this. I ahe done it in the past and was a little off-put by how thick and gloppy it was (I had to scoop it out of my 5-gallon bucket with a measuring cup, and almost always managed to spill it from my storage area to my washing machine.)
So I followed this recipe instead: http://frugallysustainable.com/2011/10/my-homemade-liquid-laundry-soap/ because it has added baking soda (which I thought might mask any greasy smell), and added lavender and chammomile EO to it to further mask any smell.
Unfortunately, it has been sitting for over 24 hours and it's not turning into the gelatinous texture I made the last time-it's really the consistency of water! I haven't actually tried it on my clothing yet, but hopefully it works. Maybe I need to add more soap shred to the mix to thicken it. Since I have an HE washer, I need it to be low-suds, which my old trusty powder recipe worked well as long as I used warm water to wash with.
So, I'm not really asking questions or anything...just ranting to people who understand the woes of soap making failures...
So I decided, well what the heck, lets use a new recipe and make liquid laundry soap with this. I ahe done it in the past and was a little off-put by how thick and gloppy it was (I had to scoop it out of my 5-gallon bucket with a measuring cup, and almost always managed to spill it from my storage area to my washing machine.)
So I followed this recipe instead: http://frugallysustainable.com/2011/10/my-homemade-liquid-laundry-soap/ because it has added baking soda (which I thought might mask any greasy smell), and added lavender and chammomile EO to it to further mask any smell.
Unfortunately, it has been sitting for over 24 hours and it's not turning into the gelatinous texture I made the last time-it's really the consistency of water! I haven't actually tried it on my clothing yet, but hopefully it works. Maybe I need to add more soap shred to the mix to thicken it. Since I have an HE washer, I need it to be low-suds, which my old trusty powder recipe worked well as long as I used warm water to wash with.
So, I'm not really asking questions or anything...just ranting to people who understand the woes of soap making failures...
I like the powder soap recipe as well, have used it several times. I was trying to make soap from used frying oil, and it made soap, but made my clothes stinky. So then I took that soap and tried to turn it into a liquid soap and got a mess!
