Troubleshooting gm soap

[greensara]

Yesterday I made 2 batches of cp soap, each with around 90% coconut oil, some avocado and castor with 20% sf at around 100 degrees. Pretty basic recipe. One batch was to be part goats milk, the other yogurt. I realized as I was pouring my lye into the oils that I forgot to add my yogurt so I simply poured the yogurt into the pot once after I poured in the lye solution. Came to trace nicely. The other batch I assumed would go smoothly too but once I poured the gm, it instantly thickened and nearly seized. I continued stirring and poured but had a bad feeling that it'd go south. This morning there's is a puddle of oil in the goats milk mold and im trying to figure out why this happened. Any ideas??

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

How much of the water replacement did you use and how much water? Also, did you insulate the moulds or try to prevent gel?

 

[lsg]

Did you use any fragrance oils?

 

[greensara]

50% water 50% gm, in the other 50% yogurt. Premixed with lye, I've never had this problem. It must be something with adding it to the soap batter?
No fragrance oils, only essential oils added after it thickened.

No insulation was used. To the batch that thickened almost instantly and now has a pool of oils, I first poured the lye into the oils then added the goats milk. It had an odd texture as I poured into the mold (weird thick but also strangely fluid??). Same recipe I've used before, I just didn't add the goats milk to the lye before mixing with the oil.

 

[FlybyStardancer]

What essential oils did you use? Some of those can misbehave as well.

 

[Trix]

Hi green Sara, are you sure you reached full trace. Whenever separation like you described happened to me, was because I was worried by the seizing id stop before I reached full trace.
Otherwise the EO could be the culprit.

Also forgot to add, it could be lye heavy for some reason so do a test before touching it with your bare hands.

 

[greensara]

Thanks Tgool, I worried I hadn't reached trace but poured out of fear that it might become impossible to work with.

It shouldn't have resulted from the eos since they are added after the batter thickened. Can't help but wonder why it happened?

 

[nebetmiw]

You just answer your own question. You added the eo after batter thickened. Which means it never incorporated into the soap.