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TT they are coconut milk, goat mil and avocado soaps )
Oh nice! I bet those are lovely, unscented and all!
TT they are coconut milk, goat mil and avocado soaps )
Sigh. The Soapy Gremlins have taken over my mojo. My last three batches have all been oozing oil. All three have been made with masterbatched oils and lye - first time using masterbatched lye, so I'm concluding the error is in the lye. More accurately may be my calculations. I always double check my final oil masterbatch weights to make sure I don't forget anything or have too much of something and this time was no exception.
So masterbatching Lye: I made 12lbs of oil (which is 6 batches 2lbs each) and decided I would masterbatch enough lye for all of it. For this recipe, per batch, I use 12.16 oz liquid and 4.45 oz NaOH both by weight. To make a 50% lye solution I calculated I would need 3x12.16 (representing half of the liquid) and 6x4.45.
3x12.16 = 36.48 oz liquid
6x4.45 = 26.70 oz NaOH
I combined these, using aloe vera juice as liquid, in an igloo water thermos that my family was no longer using (and then labeled it Poison and 50% lye solution so the family would know it wasn't lemonade). I stirred until fully dissolved. That was Friday night.
Saturday I made a batch of soap, cut it Sunday and found it oozing oil. Assumed it was because of separation as I had not brought it to trace, only to emulsion. Made two batches on Sunday, and brought both to trace. I OP'd to gel like normal (heating oven to 170F and turning off before inserting soap), as my house is still a chilly 60degs during the night. I took them out of the oven this morning and they are very oily and mushy, too mushy to unmold.
So when I made my soap I weighed out 6.08 oz masterbatch lye (I aimed for in between 6.00 and 6.10), and then added 6.08 oz remaining aloe vera juice (again shooting for the in-between).
1. Did I masterbatch correctly?
2. Did I use the masterbatch correctly?
3. Other than having a measurement off, any other trouble shooting I can do?
4. Ideas to save the soap and / or masterbatched lye?
Sorry, I know this is a lot in one message and maybe should be it's own thread. I can move it if needed.[/QUOT
this is how I do it.
If you make masterbatching lye you need equal NaOH and liquid. So you would mix 26.70onz of NaOH and 26.70onz of liquid. this is your master batch.
When making your first batch, the recipe called for 4.45of NaOH. 12.16 of liquid
Weigh 8.9 onz of your master batch - which is half liquid half NaOH - so you now have 4.45 onz of NaOH
then make up the liquid to 12.16onz
there is already is 4.45 of liquid in that mix, so add. 7 .71of liquid
I think that's right !!
Grrrrrr Made two six pound batches yesterday, one overheated, and I know that fragrance does, and still didn't check it, then I unmold it and drop it on one end completely destroying the end. Second batch I dropped on the other end. Just am a klutz today.
This is the soapy mistake soap
I told my BF it looked like meat and he goes "I don't know what kind of meat you're eating but I don't want anything to do with it".
It has holes through the entire loaf... This ones going into the "sale soaps" bin... I've used this FO before and it's well behaved so it must have been the extra 10-15 degrees.
Just an update on my masterbatching oops.... I turned on my brain and figured out the math to rebatch with the correct amount of lye (and then had two people smarter than me check it). I now have usable soap! It's not pretty but it will be lovely to use in about 8 weeks.
I managed to make a rice mess last night. Still going back through my notes to see what I might have done wrong just in case I can't blame it on the FO. My colors also turned out whacked. There is oil on top of the batch and it's still super soft although it hasn't been 24 hours yet. I was trying to do a circling Taiwan swirl to get a lotus flower look and I am thinking that may be the only thing that come out right.
Ah well, more soap for the laundry bucket I suppose.
ETA photo but can't figure it out on my new phone. And here I thought I might get away without a double post since the cat isn't head butting me at the moment....
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