Stumped

[Todd Ziegler]

I made this soap yesterday and I was very excited to see it cut but I am not sure why it crumbled on the bottom and the dark spots near the scraps.

I'm guessing that the crumbling and dark spots have something to do with the scraps that I used. However I've never had this problem before with confetti. I added the 2 pictures for comparison. I also think that the almond oil brand that I'm using has something to do with it.

 

[msunnerstood]

Ive had the crumbling with specific fragrance oils before. Soap was almost too hard to cut in 6 hours.

 

[Todd Ziegler]

The soap was very easy to cut and I'm pretty sure it is not the FO.

 

[DeeAnna]

The shadowing appears to be associated with the confetti bits. Is there something in these bits that could be bleeding into the main portion of the soap?

 

[Todd Ziegler]

The shadowing appears to be associated with the confetti bits. Is there something in these bits that could be bleeding into the main portion of the soap?

I thought about that and it could be the FO because the recipes are the same. I used 2 different soaps for the confetti and the only difference is the FO's of the soap.

I'm going to do another confetti soap today and I will see if this same thing happens again. However I am leaning towards the FO's in the confetti.

 

[DeeAnna]

I've had FO bleed from one part of the soap to another part that didn't have any FO. Yours looks a lot prettier than mine, though.

 

[Todd Ziegler]

I've had FO bleed from one part of the soap to another part that didn't have any FO. Yours looks a lot prettier than mine, though.

I shaved of the bottom and they look great now and the bleeding will only be noticed by me anyway. Lol

 

[Zing]

Love the festive colors!

 

[AliOop]

Agreed, great colors!

 

[Todd Ziegler]

Agreed, great colors!

Love the festive colors!

Thanks. I'm sitting under 8" of snow, so I wanted to do something bright.

 

[Todd Ziegler]

Here is the confetti soap that I made yesterday and it looks like that it was the FO from the confetti bleeding out. Because this confetti didn't bleed.