What happened to my soap?

[santimar]

Hi, I made this soap yesterday and when I cut it today I saw this, can somebody help me, I have never seen this before and I have been soaping for 2 years...
It has coconut Oil, Castor oil, Olive Oil, Shea Butter, Sweet Almond oil and palm oil, salt in water for hardness and kaolin clay with Monkey fart fragrance oil...it traced a little fast.
THANK YOU!!!!

 

[coffeetime]

What about this pic is bothering you? The texture? What temperature did you soap at? Any new tubs of oil used? You will have to share more info about your process in order for us to help.

 

[Susie]

Stearic spots from the palm oil?

 

[coffeetime]

Have you zap-tested it?

 

[shunt2011]

I'm thinking stearic spots but it also look like there may be some chunks in it, perhaps shea or palm that didn't totally melt?

 

[jcandleattic]

It looks like glycerin rivers, most likely from the salt, stearic, and a bit of overheating. This can happen even without the use of TD, and it looks exactly like that.

 

[coffeetime]

Have you made this particular recipe before?

 

[santimar]

It bothers me the yellowish dots, I know its not DOT, I soaped at a 94-104 temp, I used a new silicone mold and I haven't use this recipe before I was experimenting : 47% Olive Oil, 20% Palm Oil (I use a little portion of different Palm Oil -BB and WSP together) because I run out of one, 9% Shea Butter, 8% Castor, 5% almond Oil, 11% coconut Oil. 8%SF - 33 water as % of oils.

 

[santimar]

Do I Have to rebatch, It is safe? I made the zap test and it was Ok...

 

[froggybean37]

It looks like stearic to me as well. I would bet it just got very warm. Should have no effect on the safety of the bars as long as you've zap tested them

 

[coffeetime]

It's safe if it didn't zap you. Do you normally use a wooden mold? Does your soap normally gel or not? Is this from a new pail of Palm oil? If your palm hasn't been melted and stirred before using, and then completely melted before adding the lye, you can get stearic spots.

 

[santimar]

Yes I usually use a wood mold but I buy the tall and skinny silicone mold and use it with this. neither of the palm oils were new but one was older than the other. I always gel my soaps, does the silicone mold tend to overheat the batch more that the wood? Thank you so much for your help I will let it cure to see what happens.

 

[IrishLass]

First, I just wanted to say that I like your swirl!

Do the strange imperfections permeate throughout the whole soap, or is it just on the outside edges? I ask because I get a weird pitted look similar to that in my batches made with my Essential Depot silicone mold, but they are only on the outside surfaces that had contact with the sides of the mold, as in the green soap pictured below on the right:

IrishLass

 

[coffeetime]

I find it's much harder to get a good gel in silicone molds. They just don't hold the heat very well. Was your palm fully melted when you combined it with the lye solution? The temp you listed is much colder than I soap with palm. I think that stearic acid melts at about 160 degrees.

 

[santimar]

Thank you IrishLass for the example of your soap and thank you so much coffeetime for helping me figure it out it must be the palm oil....