Lye with paprika solids

[Jumbo1982]

I recently made a nice orange soap using paprika infusion in olive oil (along with orange 10x EO and lavender EO). I poured the olive oil off the top of the compacted paprika and now have a jar with 2.5oz of paprika soaked in several ounces of oil.

Rather than toss this out, I was thinking about making another batch of a more exfoliating soap using the rest of the jar. Getting the weight of the oil will be easy since I know the weights of the jar and paprika. My question is how would I account for this much paprika in my lye calculation? Can I ignore 2.5 ounces of paprika and just proceed as usual using the weights of the oils? Or will some of the lye react with the paprika solids and result in a higher superfat in my finished soap?

My gut instinct is to lower my target superfat from 5% down to 3 or 4% , but maybe this is unnecessary. It's easy to ignore a tablespoon of something in a few pound batch of soap, but 2.5 ounces is giving me pause. I appreciate any advice. Thanks!

 

[Nona'sFarm]

If it was me, I would lower the superfat to 3% and strain the paprika infused oil before adding it into my fats. If I was to add the complete infusion, again I would add it into the oils and stick blend well before adding my lye water. If adding the complete infusion, even with the super blending, I would expect some red or brown specks from the paprika in the final soap.