Stella Marie
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Hi all!
I'm new! I've been making M & P soaps for about 5 years. This year, I started making HP soaps. I will never go back! I've been having very good luck so far because I've been sticking to very a simple castille recipe, but I recently tried to add some softer fats to one of my soaps without investigating good balances. My recipe was: 4 oz cocoa butter, 4 oz shea butter, 42 oz olive oil, 6.25 oz lye, 19 oz water. I used a lye calculator to get the right amounts.
I ended up with a very soft soap. It set up, but it's still a bit spongy. Every day it gets a little harder as it dries out, but I fear that it won't ever really harden to my liking.
I don't think my measurements were the problem. I just didn't balance the bar with, say, palm oil to add a hardening element. I basically chose the 3 softest fats! No wonder.
My question to you all is, should I continue to let the bars dry out and see if the results improve, should I re-batch, or should I chuck it? I'd rather not re-batch if I can help it since this is a chocolate mint soap and I swirled dark brown into a mint green.
I look forward to your thoughts!
Thanks for having me as part of the forum!
SM
I'm new! I've been making M & P soaps for about 5 years. This year, I started making HP soaps. I will never go back! I've been having very good luck so far because I've been sticking to very a simple castille recipe, but I recently tried to add some softer fats to one of my soaps without investigating good balances. My recipe was: 4 oz cocoa butter, 4 oz shea butter, 42 oz olive oil, 6.25 oz lye, 19 oz water. I used a lye calculator to get the right amounts.
I ended up with a very soft soap. It set up, but it's still a bit spongy. Every day it gets a little harder as it dries out, but I fear that it won't ever really harden to my liking.
I don't think my measurements were the problem. I just didn't balance the bar with, say, palm oil to add a hardening element. I basically chose the 3 softest fats! No wonder.
My question to you all is, should I continue to let the bars dry out and see if the results improve, should I re-batch, or should I chuck it? I'd rather not re-batch if I can help it since this is a chocolate mint soap and I swirled dark brown into a mint green.
I look forward to your thoughts!
Thanks for having me as part of the forum!
SM
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