My soapy thing yesterday night was to put a few troublesome composite soaps into the oven for a (very) late emergency CPOP. Four months ago now, I had split a batter into a solid loaf and soap dough, then cut up the loaf and puttied together with the soap dough.
Everything appeared to be fine, until some weeks later, I noticed that some of the joints weren't stable, but gaps opened. It seemed like the CP soap contracted quicker upon curing than the soap dough. I decided to
forget about it give it some more time to mellow out. It didn't.
Yesterday I put the bars on a baking pan, and gave them an hour at 100°C in the oven. They indeed softened, and the gaps closed. Call it emergency CPOP, or call it
welding. Just now, after one night of cooling down again, they seem firmer and more robust than ever (albeit with some blisters on top from the direct heat radiation of the heating coil).
walking house to house and eating stewed kale and it's called a Kohlfart
Sure he didn't wind you up, and rather made a Kohlfa
hrt instead? Or is the missing “h” a subtle Freudian nod to your adolescent mind?
Well, Zany.. your NSCS is not fool proof! I made my first batch yesterday and unmolded today about 24 hours later. The soap is very soft. I realized late last night that I failed to change the default lye water ratio from 2:1 to 1.7:1. Maybe it will firm up someday? Or maybe I should rebatch? It was my first time using the SMF lye calc, so who knows how I might have mangled your recipe. And it’s really hot here.
It will harden up without doubt. Rebatching would make things only worse. But it's an interesting “mistake” in any case. As long as you have the correct amount of NaOH, it'll be safe soap. You've added
too much water more water than in Zany's canonical recipe. Nothing
wrong with that, except you cannot call it “official” ZNSC. And: you have a bit
more salt in it (assuming you've used pre-mixed faux sea water to make the lye solution).
And keep in mind: Unmoulding after 24 hours is already very good from a traditional castile point of view, so it's more a success than a failure in any case!