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Does Vanilla Stabilizer in m and p cause colors to morph?

The greens are turning BLUE and the reds are turning PINK...and it is soooo frustrating! I am using VCS because of the fragrances...could that be the reason the colors are changing?

Any ideas?

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I've always used VCS and never had my colours morph ... perhaps you've just discovered a new system for magical mystery colours?? I only do M & P. Maybe the VCS is out of date???

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Soaper from Melbourne Australia
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From what I understand there is a Vanilla Stabilizer made for CP soap and another one for MP. Maybe you got the wrong one?

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Irena
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I thought that you could only get VCS for M & P - I didn't think there was one for CP? But - as I don't do CP - I could be wrong

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Soaper from Melbourne Australia
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I think I got mine from Bitter Creek and it said it was made for CP.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

See - I was wrong! Told ya!!! lol

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Soaper from Melbourne Australia
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I've never seen that happen.

Which colorants are they exactly? And what type of soap base? What fragrance?

I'll spend some time in the Soap Lab tomorrow and see if I can get your recipe duplicated and figure out what's going on. =)

Most VCS will work in MP and CP interchangeably. We've been testing ours for about 6 months and so far, we've only had one fragrance go brown when using the VCS in CP soap.

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Anne-Marie
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WOW Thanks, Anne-Marie. I also thought you could only use the VCS in MP. YAY!

Thanks everyone for taking the time to reply!

Here is a better description of what is going on.

Emerald Green (when I add a tad of red or fuschia from Soapy Love) goes blue AFTER it cures (Kentish Rain was the fragrance); and I tried it in another soap to darken the green and the fragrance was Garden Mint (not BB) and it went blue. I used VCS in this batch.

The emerald green (BB) which I have been using is breaking apart or something in the bottle. When I use it, it has like tiny specks in it - I even shake it well first to no avail.

Anne-Marie your help is invaluable and thank you so much for giving this some attention, how generous once and again!

Edit to add low humidity LCD, or LCP- BB clear M and P.

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~bytheSEAsoap~ Mella bythesea, bythesea, bythebeautiful sea

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