Skin texture from using homemade soap

[Millie]

Plastic fibers!

Egads! I might start looking for a cozy cave...

I wouldn't be surprised if it's from your clothes. All sorts of fibers from our garb gets into the tissues of aquatic organisms, we must be covered in it. Kinda seems like every part of our daily lives impacts the environment in one way or another. I'm the terrible sort of person who tries not to think about it. Choosing which oils I could ethically use for soap was a nightmare - when I first learned about the impact of palm I started reading up on other oils... *sigh* ....
now I use them all.

 

[Millie]

Apologies to Patrick for going off topic :silent:

 

[Arimara]

I could have sworn you were advised that HP soaps are not cured after cooking and that they needed at least the same wait time as CP soaps to cure. If you were told this and chose to ignore that fact, you brought this on yourself. The good thing is this: you know NOW what happens when you use an immature soap and hopefully, you won't do this or give out baby-stage soaps again. It's also irresponsible to assume you don't like hand made soaps because of a natural reaction from using an uncured soap. Either wait til November to use that soap again or test that soap once a week to learn the difference in the feel of it as it is curing.

 

[PatrickH]

The post I made was to see what people thought was causing this problem without knowing the details. To see if the responses where uncured soap, Coconut Oil, classic signs of heavy lye soap or..
So I've read Coconut and/or uncured soap. I've read Palm Oil at a few places searching around on the internet
I made a low PO and Used PKF instead of coconut oil so I will have a batch ready instead of waiting to make one 6 weeks from right now if those oils might be a problem at all, so it will at least be milder, if it would even make a different since any at all might be too much.
The batch I made today has a cleansing of 7.
Just a test batch

When I make a batch, I use a little sample piece just because I want to. Obviously bad for my hands and I rarely use it anymore, but to see how it feels as the weeks go on, I learn from it by experience and with help from others.
My neighbors use it now and really like it, so it got me thinking it might be more then just uncured, or it's just how my hands are with uncured, but time will tell and will find out in the next 2 months.
I also warned my neighbor about young soap and it really needs a month to cure and they understand, but it seems to work for them.
I'm in testing stage right now, so soap is getting used earlier then it should, but as I have gained more hands on experience and knowledge, I can now make batches and know they will be decent, even if maybe not for me, others like them. I been making CP lately and those will get a 4 to 6 week cure before use.

My soap didn't zap me, so it's not lye heavy.

 

[PatrickH]

Apologies to Patrick for going off topic :silent:

No worries. If it's about soap on hands, it's on topic. More info is always good.

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

In general making variations before a bar has cured isn't the best - you could be correcting for something which won't be an issue with the cured bar.

If you want to make soap when a batch is curing, make something totally totally different like a salt bar - then when that is cured you'll be curing a different soap and can work in cycles

 

[MorpheusPA]

Even Castile, tested too early, makes my hands feel tight and dry. It's not like exposure to raw soap, but it's still unpleasant.

So as noted, don't readjust too early because you might end up with a softer, weaker soap than you really wanted in the end run (depending on the oils chosen).

We all have our tolerances to highly cleansing oils, as well. I'm OK with coconut up to about 15%. My husband seems to have no upper limit. What feels drying to you might have absolutely no effect on me. Or vice-versa if we have a slight sensitivity to a given oil.

Very hard water can make you feel dry even if the soap is perfect. A bit of sodium citrate can help out there. And again, individual people have individual tolerances!

 

[zolveria]

you need to formulate soap for your skin type.. IT SEEMS that you have dry skin.. lacking moisture. red australian clay is suppose to be an oily clay good for mature skin.. also colloidal oatmeal can sooth dry skin. try formulating and making sure the conditioner number are in range or more so. adding silk and or aloe water can help sooth and moisturise skin.

make a nice lotion , oatmeal lotion also will help. prolong dry skin cause premature aging. my husband had fisherman hands when i met him. i gave him lanolin and made special lotions for him now his hand are soft.

All skin become ashen. however for some reason light skin people cannot see ash hence and may not moisture there skin. given way to premature aging or the skin. olive skin people or people of color tend to oil and moisturize there skin regularly. helping them avoid the sign of aging. yes the dark skin is a protection from the sun. however if you don't moisturize skin will crack and age.

I am of mixed race. and 47 years old. spanish italian arabic and nigerian( andalusian,basque,puertorican (nigerian grandfather) and italian) .. my skin compared to my dark relative is different i don't look my age but i certainly do not have their skin texture either. so i stay moisturizing my face and always use ALOE WATER SILK AND conditioning soap. for my entire family

 

[Dahila]

With all due respect zolveria; Soap does not moisturize!!!! Soap washes

 

[Kizzy]

My skin gets like that if I try to use a recipe with over 20% coconut.

 

[SunRiseArts]

lol, and here I was proposing conspiracy theories. I love going through rabbit holes.

I took a picture of my arm before I started my soap and Epson salt "treatment". I will take a picture of how it looks now, and post it. Maybe you all can direct me to what happened with mine? I have seen that white film though, and I do not have it anymore, or very seldom, and I have settle on a recipe that has not changed for 6 months now. So in my case I doubt is the coconut oil. And oh, I love me some coconut oil for soaping.

I have fair skin that tans easily. What I do not understand is that if I shower with the soap. Why would the white film only be in my lower arms and hands? why not the whole body? Is that normal? This is why I thought it was either sun, or environment related. Because the white film only shows in the area that is usually not protected by clothing.

 

[BattleGnome]

Do you paint everyday? There might be paint residue that lingers with whatever soap you use after painting. I'm betting something like acrylic could cause a pretty noticeable residue with the right (wrong) soap.

 

[PatrickH]

In general making variations before a bar has cured isn't the best - you could be correcting for something which won't be an issue with the cured bar.

If you want to make soap when a batch is curing, make something totally totally different like a salt bar - then when that is cured you'll be curing a different soap and can work in cycles

I have about 5 different soap recipes curing, so when they are all done, I have many to try. If there is one I don't like, I have another to use instead of having to make another batch, curing, waiting 4 to 6 weeks and testing and if that one doesn't feel right, doing the whole process again. It would take me roughly 6 month's to test 4 recipes.
I made different recipes with more or less of different ingredients according to different issues I may have with a soap.
Each batch I make is only 1lb and I just sell off what I don't want.

A salt bar sounds interesting, I might have to make a batch.

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

You sell it off? :headbanging:

Besides, what is the rush? Any one of those soaps might, after a good cure, be what you were aiming for.

My point was that, if you stagger your soap making, a batch a week, then you will have a cycle of soaps coming out of cure each week and you can make changes to that recipe. If you made 4 recipes all at the same time then you would have to wait for all to cure before making another 4 batches, which can mean a while without soaping or "testing" uncured soap and then making changes which might not be needed. If you want to do that latter, fine, but it does mean you aren't working with all the information when you look at making changes.

 

[PatrickH]

I make a new batch of soap once or twice a week.
After my batches are cured and tested, if they are the soap I'm looking for, I can make another batch..
Will be making lip balm durring down time when no more soaps need to be made.

 

[BrewerGeorge]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but you keep asking us for advice then ignoring that advice and asking what went wrong.

Your soap is too young. It just is. Nothing you can do about that but wait. Also, the qualities of a good shaving soap are not the qualities of a good hand soap

 

[PatrickH]

The original post was just a quiz type post.
I said I understand I need to wait, so how's that ignoring. I said it multiple times I know I need to wait and I'm going to wait before fully judging it.
People ask questions and I respond.
What's the shave soap have to do with anything?

 

[BrewerGeorge]

The original post was just a quiz type post.
I said I understand I need to wait, so how's that ignoring. I said it multiple times I know I need to wait and I'm going to wait before fully judging it.
People ask questions and I respond.
What's the shave soap have to do with anything?

Ok, maybe just a misunderstanding then. Mea culpa.

 

[PatrickH]

I should mention that I like to make post that can be helpful to others.
Information lives a long time on the internet.
Someone may do a Google search with the post title and it may help them figure out a similar problem they made be experiencing.
When searching Google, I've seen post over 10 years old pop up, so a post with pictures provides a good reference for a long time.
Once my hands get gully back to normal, I will post another picture.

 

[Dahila]

PatrickH I do not want to rain on your parade but the post you made , and keep making do not have anyone, it does not contain any useful information. On internet is a lot of nonsense and no one read it , sorry