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You can add a small amount of a butter to rebatch, but if the soap is newly made, some of the molecules still will change places. There is no way to know if all of your superfat oil or butter ends up as superfat. The problem with that is that you might get less lather and less bubbles if you add too much. With hot process, the texture of the soap is more like mashed potatoes, so it's more difficult to get the soap nice and smooth.
I would just add all your oils and butters up front and not bother adding expensive oils to the mix. Soap is a wash off product, unless you are after label appeal.
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in which someone mentioned that she had added lavender buds to her cold process soap and the buds turned brown. The experienced soaper suggested that if the newbie really wanted to add lavender buds to make the soap and let it cure for a couple weeks. Then rebatch and add the lavender buds. My question is not about adding lavender buds, my question is about adding the more expensive butters and oils. Do you think adding those to a rebatch would avoid their being consumbed by the lye? I would guess that you'd add only a very small amount of the expensive butters or you might get an oily soap. What do you think?
