Teach Soap

Hi everyone,

Sorry I keep asking so many questions!

I'm having trouble with BB's clear base. I'm trying to make eraser embed bars, and I can't seem to get the clear to stay clear, like in Soap Queen's video! As soon as it hits 130 F, it starts forming bits of skin around the edges of the measuring cup, even as I'm stirring it. Then these bits of skin never melt back into the soap, so when I pour, there's weird skin strips in the soap that are very visible in the finished product. And it sets up sooo fast (much faster than the white base, IMO). I wanted it to cool a little more, since I am doing layers, but by the time it hits ~126 F it has gelled and gone gloppy and I have to reheat and start all over again.

I cool my white base (also from BB) down to 120 and under, and have no problem with it staying smooth and liquid. I feel like I have tried everything from reading past posts - I microwave at 50% power, take it out when there are still chunks, stirred, not stirred, etc.

What am I doing wrong?

That's interesting. I haven't noticed something like that with my bases though batch variation in manufacturing could account for a small amount of difference.

Email us at BB and we'll see if we can help you get to the bottom of this - info (at) brambleberry (dot) com and in the meantime, I did write the awesome team we work with on the soap manufacturing to see if they had any thoughts on it too.

=) I'll tell Tina to look for your email!

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Happy Soaping!

Anne-Marie
blog: www.soap-queen.blogspot.com
supplies: www.brambleberry.com

Wow, thanks Anne-Marie!! I appreciate you taking the time to respond. I'll try to take a few pics of the finished soap later today to better show the skin bits I was talking about and I'll send it along with the email.

Hopefully between all of us we can figure out what's wrong - I nearly had a meltdown yesterday trying to pour clear soap for the Strawberry Pie recipe!