Teach Soap

I made a swirly soap on April 7th.

Added 1.2 ounces Salty Mariner/Tea Tree blend to a 2lb batch of CPOP soap.

I am trying to figure out why this soap is starting to smell a bit rancid. It still has a great fragrance, lathers well and cleans well. But there is a feint smell of "old oil" in it.

Originally my suspicion was I superfatted too high or I added too little lye--mainly because my scale has an automatic turn off feature and I had to put the lye back into the container and measure again. Silly scale!

Lye calc data turned out good. Superfat was at 5%.

Only other concern I had when making this soap was that the soap began to separate when I added the other color.

Didn't know what to do then, so I gave up the hopes of having swirly and decided to just stir everything to make it mix well. Unfortunately when I cut the soap, there were many droplets of oil that seeped out. 24-hours after cutting, the droplets appeared to have reabsorbed.

So, in conclusion: Despite me having created a nice soap, with some swirl, I really don't know what's going on.

Help?

Was your color soap safe? My Salty Mariner seizes in CP soap.
Are you sure that what seeped out was some oil and not lye? Did you tongue test it?
How old are your oils?

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

Used BB's Ultramarine Blue Oxide.

Oils have been stored in my closet and are no more than two months old.

And tongue zap was good! Except for the nasty taste of FO...I'm pretty sure it was FO. It was bitter and made my tongue a little numb.

I bet it was the FO then. Salty Mariner is famous (or infamous) for doing strange things to soap.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.