Overheating? Gelling? Will my soap turn out ok?

[OnePlus]

Last night I poured a batch of honey oatmeal soap in a wooden mold and covered it lightly with a towl... along with smaller shaped molds.

The smaller soaps have not changed color at all while the large loaf seems to be browned on the top and a bit on the sides when I removed the wood on the corners. Is this going to give me permanently "bi-color" batch? Is there anything I can do to remedy this? Add more heat, let it cool and hope it works itself out, etc?

Thank you.

 

[Raksava*]

i havent worked with honey in my soap before, but as far as ive read here honey makes soap heat up way more than normal. it seems logical that the bigger mold you used got hotter than your smaller molds and thats probably why they ended up different colours.

a way to avoid the different colours is probably to insulate the smaller molds alot more and the larger mold less, to keep the temperatures consistant between the two diff molds.

that being said, ive never worked with honey as i mentioned above... so lets see what the pros say! =)

 

[LoriY]

Hi there, I just made a oatmeal and honey for the first time last week. I was told by my soaping seniors not to insulated it. The honey heats the soap up and insulating it could cause it to crack. It turned out great.