Salt soap bars advice please

[mnesterova]

Hi there, I made my first salt soap bars two days ago from the soap101 recipe. The recipe had salt 70% of total oil weight, I did exactly that, only one thing I wanted to experiment with was a temperature, after I poured the soap in to individual molds I put it in the oven at 180 F for 30 min. Soap come out very easy but has so much salt over it, it looks like a lot of cristals of salt all over it.
Can someone let me know if 70% was the right amount of salt and if my temperature was a wrong move? One more I can't use it for 6 weeks as ussual CP soap correct? Or adding salt changing the rules of soap sure?

 

[Obsidian]

Sounds pretty normal to me, sometime my salt bars have quite a lot of loose salt across the surface. 70% salt is a good amount, I recently switched to using 50% but for a long time, I used 100%.
Salt bars actually do well with a extra long cure, 8 weeks is minimum but I prefer 4 months or longer cure.

 

[cmzaha]

Technically if you cphp it it is ready now, but I guarantee you will not like it. I age salt bars a min of 6 months. Mine I make with 92% coconut oil and 10% castor with 100% salt to oil ratio. I have tried many different oils and butters, if my years of making salt bars, and this one gives the best of all lathers I also superfat at 15% not 20%. You could try yours anytime then try them again in 6 weeks, 10 weeks etc. You will notice a huge difference in the lather and feel. Hopefully you used fine salt, if so they will smooth out when used. Just use enough water to get them going. By the way I do not put salt bars in the oven they do not need it

 

[coffeetime]

Coconut oil really heats as it saponifies. You shouldn't need to oven process it. Mine goes to gel stage in 5-10 minutes just sitting on the counter at 21C room temp.

 

[kmarvel]

Hi there, I made my first salt soap bars two days ago from the soap101 recipe. The recipe had salt 70% of total oil weight, I did exactly that, only one thing I wanted to experiment with was a temperature, after I poured the soap in to individual molds I put it in the oven at 180 F for 30 min. Soap come out very easy but has so much salt over it, it looks like a lot of cristals of salt all over it.
Can someone let me know if 70% was the right amount of salt and if my temperature was a wrong move? One more I can't use it for 6 weeks as ussual CP soap correct? Or adding salt changing the rules of soap sure?

I am with Obsidian. I use a 50% ratio of salt. Not sure why you would want to experiment with temperature, but my salt bars are cut at the 2 hr mark and cured a minimum of 8 weeks. Let them cure for awhile and see how they do.

 

[shunt2011]

I agree with the others. I use between 25-50% salt and I too cure mine at least 8 weeks but love them more when they are 3-6 months cured. My last batch I did put in a warmed 170 oven in individual molds and then just turned it off as they don't gel and seem to get a lot of ash on them. So far no ash thank goodness. I generally make them in a slab mold with dividers and can slide them out after about 2 hours.

 

[mnesterova]

Thank you everyone for a good advices, I will let my salt soaps cure as long as possible( I do have a hard time waiting for results ),
I use to experiment a lot in the begining of my soaping and had lots of bad results, so I learn to stay with good sorce and recipe, changing it a little to my own preference but once in a while I just want to surprise myself by doing random experiments.