I made a batch today that I got a recipe somewhere online.
It was
25 oz soybean (lard type)
10 oz coconut oil
10 oz palm kernel
5 oz rice bran
15 oz water
7.06 lye
I ran it thru the calc, did not superfat, and it was very watery, took forever to get to light trace, than I poured some off into measuring cups to color, and the main batch thickened up nicely but the colored soap stayed like water. I blended each a bit than added them.
The whole batch looked like a melt and pour, didnt swirl nice, and took about 4 hours to start to harden. Now that the top has hardened, it is cracking. I dont have the experience to know what went wrong, can someone shed some insight.
Also.. if you put a recipe into a calc and it wont work, does it tell you? How would you know if a recipe is not going to work?
Thanks
It was
25 oz soybean (lard type)
10 oz coconut oil
10 oz palm kernel
5 oz rice bran
15 oz water
7.06 lye
I ran it thru the calc, did not superfat, and it was very watery, took forever to get to light trace, than I poured some off into measuring cups to color, and the main batch thickened up nicely but the colored soap stayed like water. I blended each a bit than added them.
The whole batch looked like a melt and pour, didnt swirl nice, and took about 4 hours to start to harden. Now that the top has hardened, it is cracking. I dont have the experience to know what went wrong, can someone shed some insight.
Also.. if you put a recipe into a calc and it wont work, does it tell you? How would you know if a recipe is not going to work?
Thanks