Teach Soap

I have made two batches of soaps so far and they look great but when I
tested them for ph (even after 4 weeks of curing) with ph strips I got ph 9!!
I was very disappointed because I was expecting ph 6-7.
what I used in my soaps are:
olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, canola oil, grapeseed oil,
pepermint eo, peppermint infuse water (I boiled tap water instead of
using distilled water), and ground peppermint
since it was a sample batch and thin I covered it for 12 hours instead of
24 hours.
any idea of what went wrong?!!

Nothing went wrong!

People sometimes expect a pH of 6-7, but that just isn't possible with true soap. A pH of 9-10 is a perfectly normal range, and doesn't mean anything at all is wrong with the soap. Try a small piece and see how it feels - I'll bet you that it's just fine.

(And those pH strips are notoriously unreliable - don't put too much stock in them.)

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Oh! I though the handmade soaps' ph should be lower than
commercial soaps. Thanks for letting me know this

I agree. That's pretty normal.

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