Teach Soap

I've just thrown a silent hissy fit in the kitchen. The kind where your twisting, your arms are air punching fairies and your face is so scrunched up you don't make a sound.

Why? SPOTS!!! I have flippin spots again!! Whhhyyyyyyy??

This is NOT a GM batch. It's water + Green Tea / Lye mixture. The oils heated to around 70 degrees (c) and the Lye mixture got to the same. There was no lye left - the water looked just like tea/coffee. Clear except for the colour. Not a single dot of lye left in the glass jug after I poured into the oils.

So why do I have these spots?!?!





This is just starting to tick me off so bad lol.

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It could be your stick blender. Are you keeping it completely submerged? Is you container tall but narrow? If not I would try a different mixing container.

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Irena
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Yup stick blender fully submerged. I hardly even turned it on this time. Only about 5 seconds after the initial pour of the Lye mixture in. Rest I just hand stirred with the blender off. All mixed in one of those tall stainless steel pots - the tall ones, holds like 8 lt.

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How long did it take you to reach trace? Did you use a fragrance that accelerated trace? Maybe you introduced bubbles when you swirled?

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Irena
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Um... about 2 minutes maybe? I poured at quite a thin trace as I wanted to have a go at the swirls. I used Peppermint EO

I'm not sure they're bubbles though. Although I won't know what the inside looks like until I cut it, I'm pretty sure these are the white spots I get on all my batches. The last batch was a GM one and it was lye - zzzzzap! I ended up rebatching it and it was fine. But I know I kept my milk/lye solution really cool so I wasn't that surprised. But no way this could be lye with the high temps everything got and the fact the liquid was clear.

It's just these damned white spots!!

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Are you using palm oil?

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Irena
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Nope. This was Olive, Castor, Coconut, Almond (only 5%) and Lard.

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Hmmmmm.....maybe next time just use a whisk and soap at a little higher temp?

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Irena
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How long had that batch been cut before the spots started showing up?

Anita

Nice swirls, by the way.

Anita

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My Spots! batch has the same type of spots, mine are titanium dioxide that decided it wanted to be with its friends and not my soap I discovered what mine were by nicking one out of the edge of a bar and smearing it with my fingers, it painted them white. They are all throughout the blue too, where there was no TD to begin with.

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~~Heather~~
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Ohhh are you using distilled water?

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Using tap water - but it was boiled and cooled tap water yesterday. Normally I use filtered water. (both give me spots though).

Interestingly, this morning, spots are gone.

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Disappearing spots! hehe

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