SEIZED!!!

[tincanac]

I was getting a little too arrogant and thinking I never seize - I am just going to ignore all the regular procedures and do my own thing.

LIST OF THINGS DONE WRONG

1. Made the lye solution the night before, let it get really cold
2. Added the FO to the soft oils the night before (thinking the scent would steep)
3. Reserved some of the water and mixed in some goats milk powder
4. Tried to bring the oils and the lye solution to equal temps by immersion in hot water.
5. Guestimated that they would be at the same temperature by now
6. poured the goats milk solution into the oils an SB'd til it looked 'blended"
7. Poured in lye solution

3 seconds later INSTANT HORRIFIC SEIZE - so seized that it was like hard butter, and it all came away in one go with the perfectly moulded shape of the bowl I was trying to blend in.

I mushed it, mushed it, mushed into a mould - within like 10 minutes - it looked like it had been setting for a day!

AM NOT LOVING IT!

 

[tincanac]

UPDATE

the top is hard but the bottom is feeling liquidy, it is going through gel, it just might be worth salvaging.....crosses fingers.....!

 

[tincanac]

Yes, I am talking to myself on this thread - I best confine it to my head then!

 

[rubyslippers]

Yes, I am talking to myself on this thread - I best confine it to my head then!

LOL tincanac you are funny!

Sorry about your seize. Just had that happen last week myself & it's not fun. I got a great visual from your description of pulling that soap out of the bowl. Hope it turns out okay.

 

[jmk7765]

Sorry about your batch...I haven't had that happen yet. I'm about to make some and you've got me nervous now :?
Good luck on the rebatch!

 

[heyjude]

That stinks!

Jude

 

[Guest]

Sorry that happened , wow .

What kind of FO did you use ?
I have done pretty much what you did and not had it seize . I am guessing here that it was your FO .

You weren't talking to yourself , we were just being polite and waiting until you were finished :wink:

Kitn

 

[LJA]

I agree with kitn - I bet that list had very little to do with your seize, and the FO was the culprit. Sorry....next batch will be better.

 

[Gramma Judy]

I just had my 1st absolute seize also. Immediate soap in the bowl. I didn't bother to put in the mold. I knew it wasn't blended enough and it was already mini soap pieces. I put in an oven bag and reheated every thing. I didn't get my pretty five color swirl I had planned. I got vanilla colored soap with a little lavender and yellow. The scent was Sweet Oblivion from DS. Nice scent but will have to use I think HP only.

 

[TessC]

Ditto to the above, your list of things done wrong pretty much reads like my list of things I do almost every batch. My lye solution and oils are almost always room temp, the lye is almost always mixed well ahead of time, the FO always goes into my oils, and I do the same with reserving some of the water to mix with powdered milks when I use them. I've used one FO that was a problem child, but beyond that the above method has worked flawlessly.

 

[MikeInPdx]

I have a Rose FO that does exactly the same thing, no matter what you do. So don't feel lonely.

 

[tincanac]

Thanks guys

Too bad about the FO - it was a gorgeous cinnamon scent. The good news is it seems as if the supreme mushing helped, I forced the hardened mix and put it in a warm oven and it seems to have worked, when I cut the bar it was nice and smooth and smelled really great too. I didnt get swirls but a pretty cool marbled effect!

 

[Guest]

Well there you go , are we going to get a chance to feast our eyes on it ?


Kitn

 

[Saltysteele]

we don't make mistakes here, we just have changes in plans every once in a while

sounds like it looks pretty cool!

 

[tincanac]

I am going to give it another week or so and then do the zap test - it might be zappy since it seized that quick.

About the pics - I will post them eventually, I am trying to invent a homemade lightbox to take pics of the soap.....and I am two steps closer, I salvaged a box from work (the greatest thing about working at a Uni is all the great stuff they throw away, including plastic crates that I now use to dry my soap on), I bought some white PVA, now all I have to do is locate my trusty box cutter and find some whiteboard to line the box with.