Not long, and people around here are counting apologies for having done nothing soapy today as a soapy thing they have made today
Who knows, maybe the busy
soapmakers are to blame…
I don't think this clumping/dissolution issues are too troublesome with soap, regarding how rude we're treating the batter anyway. I had good success with just soaking rolled oats 1:5 in water and SBing them into oat “milk” (bran sifted off with a tea strainer), I've seen this somewhere on YouTube IIRC. It's impressive how this “oat milk” will get a pudding-like texture when lye is added, not unlike medium trace (but still without oils added!). Tested the CP soap I made that way just yesterday (shy of four weeks curing time) and it already gave a lovely lather and felt very smooth on the skin.
Actually today, I lost patience with the last semi-solid lumps of soap paste still swimming undissolved in my
Décadence LS after
months. Sifted them off, dissolved in hot water, and pleased myself with a decadent footbath with a slight poppy odour.