This one from Amazon. It's my third batch with this lye and the only one that acted like this.
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@bookworm42 Do you add anything, like sugar or salt, to the water before trying to dissolve the lye? What lye concentration are you using?
I disolve 1% sugar before my lye and I do 33% lye concentration.
My plan was a 3% superfat but given my loaf is still soft 48 hrs later I think it's either a high superfat or the cocoa powder I used for coloring decided to do something.
I've ordered and used that brand many times so I don't think it's the lye.
I noticed that the container from Amazon lists ingredients as follows: Shea, PEG-100, sodium hydroxide. I've always tried to buy lye that is around 99% sodium hydroxide. Might that make a difference?
Weird, I'm not seeing that at all. When I click the link provided above, the product ingredients say 100% sodium hydroxide.
Same. I also check my bottle and all it lists is sodium hydroxide.
No, that's good if it is 100% sodium hydroxide. It could be that I'm in Canada and when I clicked on the link, the item that came up wasn't showing the same ..... ? Hopefully you can figure out what the problem was.
My new stickblender should be here this weekend. I sure hope I get this technique at least decently right the first time because I might not have time for more than one attempt.
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1. Servant4Christ
2. Vicki C.
3. dmcgee5034 - hello, my feathered friends! I’m in
4.justsomeguy -
5. bookworm42 - my DH talked me into this
6. Barefoot Farm Girl
as long as I can talk my dh into making the soap mold, I can’t cut a straight line to save my life!7.
How are the soaps coming along? There's still plenty of time left to adorn a batch or two with fine feather plumes! 
I made two of them.
This is the two colors on top but three colors in the mold one (the base was at to light a trace
). I didn't use a separator in the mold.
I never thought I could do such a thing as this
This is the two colors on top but three colors in the mold one (the base was at to light a trace
). I didn't use a separator in the mold. I never thought I could do such a thing as this
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