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Hey friends,
I ventured into my first soapmaking these past two days. Yesterday I made a batch of cleaning soap (80% coconut/20% soybean) that turned out absolutely perfect.
Here's a picture:
Today however something catastrophic has happened to my soap. This time I was making my first batch of body soap (65% pomace olive/25% coconut/10% castor). I made it the exact same way, heated my oils till all melted and slightly warm, cooked my KoH with the glycerin till dissolved and heated, poured it in and stick blended, but the soap took a totally different turn then my other soap. Rather than tracing into a nice foamy gel, it turned into what I can only describe as pudding.
Here's what it looks like:
It pretty much never looked like traced soap no matter how much I stick blended/whisked. After almost two hours it is still not hard, where as my first soap was completely hard gel after 40 minutes.
I tested the batch with anthocyanin liquid and it came with a weird result as well:
It appears to just be the color of the soap? I assume that means its neutral? My batch yesterday started dark blue and ended up being light blue after it sat for 40 minutes.
Anyone have any idea what happened here and if this is fixable? This was run through summer bea meadow soap calc before being made. Nothing was added all to the mix other than the oils (3% superfat) and KoH/glycerin mixture which were weighted in their heating vessels to be as accurate as possible.
Thanks
I ventured into my first soapmaking these past two days. Yesterday I made a batch of cleaning soap (80% coconut/20% soybean) that turned out absolutely perfect.
Here's a picture:
Today however something catastrophic has happened to my soap. This time I was making my first batch of body soap (65% pomace olive/25% coconut/10% castor). I made it the exact same way, heated my oils till all melted and slightly warm, cooked my KoH with the glycerin till dissolved and heated, poured it in and stick blended, but the soap took a totally different turn then my other soap. Rather than tracing into a nice foamy gel, it turned into what I can only describe as pudding.
Here's what it looks like:
It pretty much never looked like traced soap no matter how much I stick blended/whisked. After almost two hours it is still not hard, where as my first soap was completely hard gel after 40 minutes.
I tested the batch with anthocyanin liquid and it came with a weird result as well:
It appears to just be the color of the soap? I assume that means its neutral? My batch yesterday started dark blue and ended up being light blue after it sat for 40 minutes.
Anyone have any idea what happened here and if this is fixable? This was run through summer bea meadow soap calc before being made. Nothing was added all to the mix other than the oils (3% superfat) and KoH/glycerin mixture which were weighted in their heating vessels to be as accurate as possible.
Thanks
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