MissCherryBlossom
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Hello everyone! This is my first time posting here, but I've been quietly perusing the forum for quite a while now. I need all the feedback you guys can kindly give me.
Here's the deal; I started soaping two years ago and made about a dozen really nice batches and that was it. But now I started again and the two batches I made have failed! I'm starting to think I'm cursed or something (not really though! Haha).
I was told the first one failed because of using a somewhat clumpy lye. So I got new lye but in flakes.
Recipe: The recipe for my small Bastile batch was this: OO 68.73% , Castor 6.29% , CO (Refined) 24.98%, Water 8.26 oz, Lye 3.45 oz, Superfatted at 5%, 1tsp Sodium Lactate
Problem: The soap was doing just fine and hardening for about an hour. Then it turned to mush, literally. It's extremely oily on the top and 24 hours laters I have no hopes for it.
Question: What do you think went wrong? I thought it was the lye the first time but I changed it. I hadn't used Refined CO on my previous batches but did with this one. Could that be the culprit? Or could it be a faulty scale?
Thanks for all the help you can give me!
Here's the deal; I started soaping two years ago and made about a dozen really nice batches and that was it. But now I started again and the two batches I made have failed! I'm starting to think I'm cursed or something (not really though! Haha).
I was told the first one failed because of using a somewhat clumpy lye. So I got new lye but in flakes.
Recipe: The recipe for my small Bastile batch was this: OO 68.73% , Castor 6.29% , CO (Refined) 24.98%, Water 8.26 oz, Lye 3.45 oz, Superfatted at 5%, 1tsp Sodium Lactate
Problem: The soap was doing just fine and hardening for about an hour. Then it turned to mush, literally. It's extremely oily on the top and 24 hours laters I have no hopes for it.
Question: What do you think went wrong? I thought it was the lye the first time but I changed it. I hadn't used Refined CO on my previous batches but did with this one. Could that be the culprit? Or could it be a faulty scale?
Thanks for all the help you can give me!