Hello all, I am new here but not new to soap making. I haven't had any issues making soap but took several years off and now have had all kinds of issues restarting. I would appreciate any help from your anecdotal experiences (if you have had this issue).
I made the following batch:
Ingredient Amount in Grams
Olive Oil 1840g
Coconut Oil 342g
Lye 169g
Water 394g
Lavendar EO (from Joanne Fabrics): .75oz
Vanilla EO(from Joanne Fabrics): 1.25oz
Total Weight 2745
The big mistake was that the olive oil was supposed to be 840 and not 1840g. I didn't realize until later.
Details:
Mixed lye and water at 100F and then added
at light trace, added in EO and perhaps over mixed with my stick blender? The batch started to rice and then volcano and I knocked it down in the pan. When it subsided, I poured into mold and 2 days later it is still soft, and no real later and greasy. To be expected based on 1000 grams extra of oil.
I have two questions:
1. Is there anything that can be done to recoup this batch? My research hasn't found a good solution for too little lye.
2. Any ideas on why this recipe would be ricing and volcanoing? I have never had this happen and think perhaps I was overmixing once I added in essential oils. I think next batch I will try hand mixing only with the oils at trace as it definitely appeared to accelerate to process. One other note, I had this occur in the past 2 batches I have made and can't figure the culprit. The other recipe was a double of the recipe above (with the correct amount of olive oil in it). Those bars aren't pretty, but the later seems ok, they passed the zap test too. I am wondering if I
Thanks to anyone willing to help me trouble shoot - I appreciate it!
I made the following batch:
Ingredient Amount in Grams
Olive Oil 1840g
Coconut Oil 342g
Lye 169g
Water 394g
Lavendar EO (from Joanne Fabrics): .75oz
Vanilla EO(from Joanne Fabrics): 1.25oz
Total Weight 2745
The big mistake was that the olive oil was supposed to be 840 and not 1840g. I didn't realize until later.
Details:
Mixed lye and water at 100F and then added
at light trace, added in EO and perhaps over mixed with my stick blender? The batch started to rice and then volcano and I knocked it down in the pan. When it subsided, I poured into mold and 2 days later it is still soft, and no real later and greasy. To be expected based on 1000 grams extra of oil.
I have two questions:
1. Is there anything that can be done to recoup this batch? My research hasn't found a good solution for too little lye.
2. Any ideas on why this recipe would be ricing and volcanoing? I have never had this happen and think perhaps I was overmixing once I added in essential oils. I think next batch I will try hand mixing only with the oils at trace as it definitely appeared to accelerate to process. One other note, I had this occur in the past 2 batches I have made and can't figure the culprit. The other recipe was a double of the recipe above (with the correct amount of olive oil in it). Those bars aren't pretty, but the later seems ok, they passed the zap test too. I am wondering if I
Thanks to anyone willing to help me trouble shoot - I appreciate it!