Teach Soap

K... do I cut it up? Or leave it as a loaf?

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Irena
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I had one that looked like your second set of pictures! I absorbed back in in a couple days and seems just fine now!

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I really like the color!

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Debbie

I didn't actually add any colour to it either hehe - that second lot is that colour due to cheesecake FO (went a nice caramel colour) and the goat's milk warming through gel.

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How is it doing now hun?

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Still the same.

The first lot of photos hasn't changed much. I actually forgot how bad it was on top and when I went to grab the soap off the shelf, misjudged and stuck my fingers right in the top. One word: GROSS!! It's like liquid petroleum jelly.

When I rinsed it off under the tap, it still left a greasy like feeling on my fingers. Both kids came running with "what, what, what mum, what's gross mum, what, show me" as I was doing a little dance in the kitchen going "yuck, yuck, oooh gross, yuck"

The other loaf is still the same as well - most of it feels soft, like a moist sponge cake...

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Is it possible that one of your oils is adultarated? The loaf should not be this soft by now.

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Irena
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The actual soap is hard as a rock. It's only the jelly like substance on top of one, and the top 1-2mm of the other (again, has that jelly stuff on it)

I made another batch last night with the exact same recipe - but used Fig (gag!) and Sage Flower fragrance oils. NOT my kind of smell lol. The only difference was I didn't pop it in the oven. I just left it out. I don't believe it gelled either...

No icky stuff. So I don't think it's the oils since it was the exact same ones used in all 3 batches.

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Seems like it was the fragrance that was the culprit then, if your recipe is exactly the same and so are the oils.

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

Yeah, the only differences are:
- Fragrance
- Popping in the oven vs not
- Gelling vs not (I'm pretty sure the fig batch didn't gel)

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Coolah, I've had the same type of oil slick on a couple of my soaps when they overheated slightly. It never completely absorbed back into the soap so I just wiped it off. The soap didn't zap so I just used it as a hand soap rather than a bath soap since some of the oil was missing.

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Both batches have been binned!! If you want the details and all the gory pics (including the popping pimple soap!) it's up on the blog. http://coolahcreations.com/blog/2012/03 ... d-captain/

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