I have been making some soaps after lurking on here for a while. I have made some with butters but all my butter soaps have white specks in them im using shea, mango, cocoa at up to 15% in my receipe I'm just wondering what these white specks are and how to aviod in future
White spots on soap
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Todd Ziegler
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Can you provide your total recipe. They could be stearic spots or air bubbles. They look like air bubbles to me. Do you use a stick blender to stir everything?
Do you melt everything until it's clear first?
Hi yes i think i do.. but ill try again tomorrow
It can be yellowish, but you need to be able to clearly see right through it, with no speckles or clouds, or you might get stearic spots. Which are only a problem if you don't like white spots in your soap.
Also, do you let the air out of the stick-blender bell before you begin blending? Depending on the design of the bell, it may not be possible. If it isn't possible to let the air out of the bell with your current blender, you'll have to accept air bubbles as part of your design, switch to stirring by hand, or get a new stick-blender that you can let the air out of.
Also, do you let the air out of the stick-blender bell before you begin blending? Depending on the design of the bell, it may not be possible. If it isn't possible to let the air out of the bell with your current blender, you'll have to accept air bubbles as part of your design, switch to stirring by hand, or get a new stick-blender that you can let the air out of.
