separation of solution in liquid soap

[Ali said]

Hello everyone, I have been making cold process liquid soap for a while now. Olive oil-Sunflower oil-Castor oil and coconut oil with 50-50% water and glycerin. (20% potassium hydroxide solution) It hardens in about 15 minutes and it hardens a lot. I dilute it after waiting for 1 day. But sometimes a liquid forms at the bottom of the paste. I think the potassium hydroxide solution separates from the oils. Because I did a zap test today and even my eyes got red. I wonder why this separation sometimes occurs when I apply this cold process liquid soap?

 

[DeeAnna]

If you want useful advice, you need to provide your full recipe in weights. There's no way anyone can give decent feedback without an actual recipe.

What I can tell you is that KOH alone cannot magically separate itself from a soap paste. There might indeed be excess alkali in your soap, but it's not just KOH. And there's no way to know if that's even the problem without the recipe.