oh pickles!!!

[Galavanting Gifts]

The beautiful gm soap I made a couple of days back I believe has failed.
I checked it this morning and noticed tiny pin head sized pimples over it, one opened up and I stuck my tongue on it, yep gave me a bite back.
Wen I added the Lye to the frozen gm the gm was in chunks rather than sloshy mush is it likely that the frozen gm over powered the Lye and didn't allow the Lye to entirely melt thus leaving me with little lye particles in the soap?
I'm guessing I wil need to be tossing this batch out huh? and to think it was such a beautiful batch :x

 

[Lindy]

No you don't need to toss it - you need to rebatch it....I like the oven process for most rebatches although you can do a whipped rebatch as well (you can look in the soap tutorials for instructions on that one). Depending on how soft your soap is you are probably going to want to grate it and then put it in a pot @ 200F for a couple of hours and just let it melt down with an occassional stir. Don't add any more fluid when it is this fresh, just melt. Once it gets to where it looks like vaseline do a zap test if the zap is gone then put into your molds - if there is still a zap keep cooking until the zap is gone.

HTH

Cheers
Lindy

 

[Galavanting Gifts]

Thanks Lindy for your help, I will be so brave as to tell you I rebatched my other lot (that had too much water in it) but not realising the oven temps were in celsius I put it on 200 Celsius, thankfully I rescued it just in time lol, then last night our bottle baby goat sneaked into my soap packaging room ate about a tablespoon of the rebatch and gave herself a good belly ache the little ratbag lol.
Sooooo THIS time I will set the temp right on the oven lol.

 

[Lindy]

Good for you! I had so many mis-conceptions about rebatching and it took me several tries to get anything that even looked usable! Now, although I prefer to not have to rebatch I know that I can do it and there are a few different ways of doing it depending on what I want to accomplish with it. Please post some pictures so we can see....

 

[Galavanting Gifts]

Lindy I don't feel so bad now knowing it took you a while to get the hang of rebatching.
How long roughly does it take for a rebatch to set up after cutting it?

 

[Lindy]

Depending on how much fluid there is - as soon as its hard you can use it. That's one of the advantages of rebatching. Originally I wanted to make large batches of castille and then rebatch small batches to make lots of different soaps. Decided that was just too much work! And then of course became addicted to CP......

Believe me - it took time before I started getting rebatches that I liked....