Teach Soap

Hi Everyone!
1st time poster long time lurker here. I just made my 3rd batch of soap last night. Most of my newbie questions can be answered by searching the boards, but I just couldn't find anything about this. Maybe I just don't know what it is technically called! I decided that I wanted to try CPOP so I mixed and swirled and everything looked OK until I took it out of the oven this morning and it was seriously messed up looking. I cut off all of the sides and the bottom and you can see what I was left with. Looks fine now, and I hope that it will still be OK!
Just as a reference I used Anne-Marie's recipe from the beginners video series she made. I used TKB pop Micas and I used Blackberry Sage FO. I combined the oils and lye water at around 110.
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So tonight when the kids went to bed I decided to try again with a different recipe. I used soap calc and got the recipe below. What I have in the oven is quite literally a hot mess. I used Raspberry Pop Mica from TKB and Sun Ripened Raspberry FO from BB. It accelerated trace (just like it said). I glopped it in my silicone loaf mold (too new to spring for a fancy wood one!) and as I watched it in the oven I could see it fade from pretty raspberry pink to baby pink and finally to sickly yellow pink. Sigh.
Is the oven just messing things up for me? I will take any wisdom anyone can throw my way. I think next week I will try just straight up CP. If anyone has a better recipe I could try I would love to hear it as well. I am a lotion lip gloss, lip balm, and lipstick maker, so I have a nice variety of oils and butters on hand. I am learning that CP soap has quite the learning curve!

Thanks!
Stacey


Total oil weight 16
Water as percent of oil weight 35.5 %
Super Fat/Discount 6 %
Lye Concentration 29.077 %
Water : Lye Ratio 2.439:1
Sat : Unsat Ratio 47 : 53
Iodine 50
INS 171
Fragrance Ratio 0
Fragrance Weight 0 Oz


Ingredient Pounds Ounces Grams
Water 0.355 5.68 161.025
Lye - NaOH 0.146 2.329 66.016

# √ Oil/Fat % Pounds Ounces Grams
1 Olive Oil 35 0.35 5.6 158.757
2 Palm Oil 15 0.15 2.4 68.039
3 Coconut Oil, 76 deg 40 0.4 6.4 181.437
4 Castor Oil 10 0.1 1.6 45.359
Totals 100 1 16 453.592

Hardness 29 - 54 45
Cleansing 12 - 22 27
Conditioning 44 - 69 50
Bubbly 14 - 46 36
Creamy 16 - 48 27
Iodine 41 - 70 50
INS 136 - 165 171

The second photo looks like your soap overheated. I have used the Raspberry POP mica as well and got a peach instead of pink. The more yellow your oils or butters, the more peach your pink POP will come out. How much fragrance did you use PPO?

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

I used .75oz. Smells good so far!

Overheated. O.K. maybe skip the 170 degree oven? Warming drawer perhaps? Nothing?

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

Do you know for a fact that your oven is heating properly. And did you preheat or just turn it on 170 and put the soap in? Some ovens in order to preheat quickly will start at a much higher temp.

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Susie
Sometimes A Mistake is so much fun, You just have to do it again!