!!HELP!!
This is my normal recipe:
Olive 10.24
Palm 7.68
Coconut 7.04
Castor 3.52
Shea 3.52
water 12.48
lye 4.295
Soaping around 95F.
I added 1.6oz of powder (combination of oat flour, kaolin clay, buttermilk, yogurt, goatsmilk) into the oils and stick blended until mixed.
I used 10.48 oz of water in the lye solution and added that and mixed, then incorporated 2oz of whole milk and mixed. I did have a harder time seeing the oils and lye mixing together because of all the white additives, usually it's a pretty obvious color change, and since I was using full water rates. But it appeared to be at light trace. I did two batches and one was a layered design and the batter was thick enough to pour on top of each other without poking through.
So here are some before and after photos
http://imgur.com/a/NuFkx The first batch, the soap seemed nice and thick with the soap and gold mica swirl and I sprinkled oats on top of it. I CPOP'd it like I normally do. When I looked this morning, the entire top is clear liquid. The oats are sunk in and the top is just a clear pool of some oil. The other soap (I don't have a before picture because it was a grey ombre/solid color top) but you can see in the picture it has a thin layer, but oil seeping out the sides and if I move it, it jiggles like a water bed.
what went wrong?? Too many additives? Not traced/mixed enough? Can I save it as it? or do I have to rebatch it?