Soap Powder Rebatch?

[VikingChick]

A couple of months ago I attempted to make mini soaps. They turned out chalky and powdery, and I think I know what I did wrong - soaped too cool and didn’t CPOP or get them to gel any other way. It’s a lot of soap to go to waste, so today I was thinking maybe I could try the ciaglia method and rebatch these things. (They do function like regular soap if I put them under water). I put them in the food processor to try to shred them, and they completely turned into powder! I could just use them as a powdered soap (a handful under the water lathered up just fine), but I see that being messy. Any ideas how I could reprocess this? Do you think ciaglia would still work?

Pictures of the soaps before and after grating.

 

[artemis]

That's what I did with mine. It didn't even interfere with the frangrance I added to the new batter.

 

[basti]

You can ciaglia with it! My first ciaglia batch was made using 80% CO soaps (with high SF) that I unmolded just a hair too late and the bars crumbled when I cut them. When I ran them over a cheese grater, it basically turned into soap dust.

 

[VikingChick]

Thank you both! The batch is in the oven now, CPOPing away.

Side note: The other day when I was trying to look up this method on YT, I couldn’t remember what it was called so I searched for “Caligula” (I knew that wasn’t it but it was something like that)! LOL…..needless to say, the results weren’t about soap.

 

[dmcgee5034]

Can’t wait to see how it turns out, @VikingChick
That is on my list of things to try.

 

[Mobjack Bay]

When I have issues it’s almost always due to a thin emulsion combined with cold soap. With fresh soap made at a normal-ish lye concentration (33%j, I’ve had success with rescue cpop at elevated temperature, but it doesn’t work well for soap made at 40% lye concentration.

 

[KiwiMoose]

Can't wait to see it @VikingChick!

 

[Servant4Christ]

Looking forward to seeing your soap! I recently powdered some of my scrap pieces to try the Ciaglia method and was very pleased with the results.

 

[VikingChick]

When I have issues it’s almost always due to a thin emulsion combined with cold soap. With fresh soap made at a normal-ish lye concentration (33%j, I’ve had success with rescue cpop at elevated temperature, but it doesn’t work well for soap made at 40% lye concentration.

That’s exactly what happened: thin emulsion and low temps. I was making mini soaps and some of the designs had a fine pattern, so I was trying to keep the batter from getting too thick, too fast. I’d put them on a heating pad, but it wasn’t enough in this case. I’m now a CPOP convert, at least when my house is 68 degrees!

 

[Obsidian]

Another way to use powdered soap is put it in a shaker bottle, a grated parmesan cheese bottle works really well.

 

[VikingChick]

Another way to use powdered soap is put it in a shaker bottle, a grated parmesan cheese bottle works really well.

I never even thought of that. Well, I do have some left!

 

[VikingChick]

I ended up doing two ciaglia batches with two different piles of scrap. The green one used the yellow powder.

The base color is actually Caribbean Blue but it mixed with the smaller particles of yellow. You can see some texture in it, though.

The white soap is just a use-up of scraps and trimmings from the last year or so.

 

[KiwiMoose]

They both look pretty

 

[Mobjack Bay]

They both look great!

 

[BWt]

Very nice rebatch. Did not realize rebatch could turn out so smooth.

 

[Servant4Christ]

Very nice rebatch. Did not realize rebatch could turn out so smooth.

That's the beauty of Ciaglia

 

[VikingChick]

Thanks, y’all! I’m happy with them too.

 

[dmcgee5034]

Ohhhhh, those are amazing! Round of applause!

 

[Whillow]

Now I have to look up Ciaglia. ** opens Youtube **

 

[Whillow]

Now I have to look up Ciaglia. ** opens Youtube **

Well that just opened up a whole new load of questions for me LOL.

Is it possible to use scraps from different recipes?
What about all the different fragrances?
How would you label them if they are all different recipes? Oh maybe they would just be for personal use...