Anyway I made a redemption batch today and it absolutely had all the oils in it. I am going for a subtle yellow ombré. I hope it turns out well because it took over an hour to pour and I am not going to do it again. I guess I will know tomorrow. 
Can’t wait to see it!Yesterday’s batch is sitting in the naughty corner, all crumbly and smelling like grapefruit. I’m just going to leave it there and see what happens. Can’t rebatch it if it’s needed for scientific observation, right?
My naughty batch is hiding under a paper towel on my soap shelf and I'm trying to decide what to do with it. It's a batch of salt bars and I did the math - they're lye heavy. I have no desire to grate up 16 bars of salt bars for rebatching. So...... there they sit.Yesterday’s batch is sitting in the naughty corner, all crumbly and smelling like grapefruit. I’m just going to leave it there and see what happens. Can’t rebatch it if it’s needed for scientific observation, right?
Under a paper towel is a good idea - that way they can’t mock me every time I go in my soap room. I feel for you though. 16 bars is a lot to lose.
@dibbles
The biggest factors for me are recipe, mixing to emulsion and the fragrance oil. Strawberry patch from OT slowed trace and I was at light trace for 3 when using it. I also soap around 100F.
Maybe if you let it cure for a while - otherwise I think those lye heavy soap bits would be really irritating. (exposure to air/curing will help the soap neutralize somewhat).
Do you have any idea how hard salt soap is? With my wrists, not happening (Carpal tunnel and de Quervain's).
Where did you see it was salt soap? I thought it was just because she left out an oil (28%). And I have to tell you, my best purchase ever was a Salad Shooter - bought it at Goodwill years ago, and it is fabulous for rebatching.
Sorry... I did the same thing... shorted my oils by almost half. But mine was a batch of salt bars.
Probably all of the above. I soap pretty cool normally. I'd say this batch was combined oil/lye solution temp of low 90s F. Lard is super slow moving, but I am also trying to use up some shea butter so I used lard at 28% (this is the fat I forgot to add in the failed batch). I barely use the stick blender and only to bare emulsion. I did use Afternoon Tea from Nurture which, IMO, can decelerate trace. My lye concentration was 33% and SF was 2%.
When letting it “cure for a while” - would help to shred it first?
Thank you! I did use an impression mat in the bottom of the mold.
). She wanted to make Nicaraguan nacatamales since that’s a traditional Christmas dish there. We had to go to the Supermercado to find a lot of the ingredients, one of which was annatto. While we were looking for it, she held up this big jar of it and said, “There’s this, but I don’t know what you’d do with the rest of it!” I said, “Oh, I can use it!” 
Ahhh… shoot. I too have a salad shooter - works well for shredding. Half the oils is very lye heavy though. Well you could always salt it out…
I don’t know if shredding it would help. And I would just add shreds to a recipe - would make the superfat high, and then stick blend it to a fine slurry. But it would be an experiment.
