Teach Soap

Ladies, what do I do with my batch of HP that's cooking, and it's still zapping? I did:

9 oz of olive
.6 oz of castor
4.5 of distilled water
2.5 coconut oil
1.6 oz of lye

That's a pretty small recipe. Did you convert it to grams to get a more accurate measure? Is your scale accurate? How long has it been cooking and in what temp?

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Irena
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No, I didn't convert it into grams. Should I have? I make small batches because I don't need mass items because I sell only a few items at a time, I don't have much money so I try not to make huge batches. I only want about 3 nice pieces just in case they don't sell. Well what happened was, I set the oven 175 degrees which I'm thinking might be too low. I kept checking it and it kept on looking like applesauce, but it kept zapping. So I left it in there for a longer amount of time and hiked the oven up to 225 degrees. Finally I took it out after it didn't zap any longer, and it was much thicker.

Yes, I would convert it to grams, including the lye. The water can stay in ozs. If it was me, I would also recalculate this recipe so it makes 16 ozs. instead of 12 ozs. For 12 ozs. of soap; whether crockpot or the oven, it should not have taken you more than 45 minutes. Did you bring the soap to true trace before it started cooking?

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Irena
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I'm pretty sure, what is a true trace? I was stick blending and lifting it up every so often to see if the soap stayed on top. When it finally did, I guess you could say it was a light trace, that's when I put it in the oven.

Since you're cooking it, you can bring the soap batter to a fairly thick trace. This means that a drizzle from your stick blender would stay on top of the soap for a couple of seconds before it sinks back in.

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Irena
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Thank you Soapbuddy. Do you think that 1.5 oz of lye would be okay instead of the 1.6 oz? Also, I used ultrmarine blue, I have ground Anatto, am I able to use that for coloring? If so, how do I do it? Also, how can I get this soap to come out without the white spots? I did the oil w/ the ultramarine, but as soon as I took the soap out of the oven and it started drying up, the white spots started popping out. Is there any way that I can avoid this? I would like for it to look fluid, not spotty.

1.6 ozs. is 40.55 grams
1.5 ozs. is 42.52 grams
For that size batch, depending how much you are superfatting, I would try to be as accurate as possible. For the ultramaring blue, hold back just a small amount of your oil and mix that with it.
Then add this to your cooled off oils and stick blend. Then add your lye water. For more fluidity after the cook, add some sodium lactate to your batch. The white spots are most likely cooked soap that has started to cool off. That happens with cooked soap.

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Irena
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Ok soapbuddy, thank you for all of your help!! I don't have any sodium lactate, that will have to be the next thing I buy.

You're welcome. Good luck on your next batch.

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