Tell me your weather woes and soap

[mel z]

Was just watching soaping101 on ash, the reasons for it, and remedies.

One reason is humidity. You guessed it, I live where it gets humid and hot. Dreadful. Soon that is all it will be. So, we have ash as a weather woe.

I figure, much like baking, weather will effect soaping. Cold, rainy, hot, humid, you name it. Share your woes and any remedies with us all.

 

[Aunt Polly]

Well, being in Alabama, it will soon be hot and very humid here, sometimes so humid you can't even breathe outside. I zap my soap with isopropyl alcohol after I pour it, and then when it is cut. So far, no ash.

 

[slbenter]

I live on the southern California coast, and we get our share of humid weather (we also get some hellasous dry spells, lol)....but I've been soaping i guess about 8 years...and I have yet to have a batch ash on me.

Of course, now that I've told the whole world that ........:shh:

 

[mel z]

Interesting. Good to know you guys don't have any ash.

Anyone got any rainy day, too cold, too hot, too anything day observations? Guess I get curious about the most irrelevant things.

 

[melstan775]

I think it's hard butters that cause ash. I live in a no humidity zone I the high desert. All my batches with Shea ash, even the ones I spray with alcohol. Only the ones without it stay clean.

 

[squigglz]

I pretty much never have to deal with ash, which is nice, but high humidity tends to make curing take for-ev-er which is so annoying.