Shampoo Recipe

[newbie]

Raynedancer, you can rebatch this. You should wear gloved to handle the bars but if you can shred them or cut them into chunks, they will melt more readily. You can't have made this too long ago and so it shouldn't need too much extra liquid to help it along. It seems that most people use a few tablespoons of milk (dependent on how much soap you're rebatching) as it helps the rebatched soap flow a bit better than water. Add the coconut oil you missed and make certain it's blended really well. Add a little more fluid if the soap seems a little dry, but at a week, again, you shouldn't need too much. Remold and you should be fine.

There are many threads and source of information on rebatching if you're uncertain.

Good luck!

 

[raynedanser]

Thank you so much! I only did it yesterday, so it should be fine. It will probably not be until tomorrow afternoon before I can do it.

 

[newbie]

If it's that new, you may not need any extra liquid, especially if you used full water. Chop it up and put it in the crock pot or double boiler or whatever you use (I think some people use the microwave, too) and watch it. I think you'll know pretty readily if you need any milk or water. Should be as easy a rebatch as it could be! Don't add too much liquid or your soap will be too soft and take longer to harden up.

Ha! Look at that- a small thread about this just posted.

http://soapmakingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29372

 

[Yooper]

Thank you so much! I only did it yesterday, so it should be fine. It will probably not be until tomorrow afternoon before I can do it.

I am so so sorry for my typo! I copied and pasted from Word, and just never noticed it dropped that last line of the recipe. I hope that the rebatch worked and that it wasn't too much trouble.

That was my first post on this forum, and I have a feeling it will be my last recipe I share. I'm feeling very chagrined.

 

[raynedanser]

Oh no! Please don't stop sharing! It melted/rebatched just fine, so no worries! (and oh man, it looks beautiful!)

I mean really, you're only human, right? ;-)

 

[newbie]

And everyone on here advises a person to run every recipe through a lye calculator themselves, just in case. This is a perfect reinforcement of why- you never know when a typo may have occurred and of course that does happen. Don't stop sharing!

 

[raynedanser]

And not everyone here KNOWS that there is a lye calculator or where to find one that is accurate or that they would need to do that.

MANY people here seem to have forgotten what it was like to be new and still learning. Telling people to search forums (which is overwhelming, to say the least) or just saying "use this, use that" isn't very helpful if the person is still learning things.

Its incredibly frustrating and a bit discouraging.