Teach Soap

Back again for a little moan

So last year i did 2 soaps using
16 oz shea
16oz coconut oil
12.16 oz water
4.974 oz SH

this recipe was used twice and not superfatted. this was the first ever recipe i used and was non zappy at all.Problem free, traced ok and gel phased ok as well.

Now the problem i am having is that i did a superfatted soap by 5% here is the recipe i used
19.4 oz shea
19.4 oz coconut
14.744oz water
5.729oz SH

This traced within seconds (im aware some FO's can accelerate trace but i didnt add anything) it pretty much went like thick jelly.
I managed to pour it into my silicone loaf mould though. but 24 hrs after when i cut it, it was zappy as hell.
So what i did was grate it all up and melt it and added 8oz shea butter, let it set up and it seems to be ok now, not zappy. But i'm still not 100% happy it will be skin friendly.

The next soap i did was as the first recipe (see above) this traced within seconds. Again not using any FO or colour. However it turned out slightly better (non zappy) however was like cottage cheese (i know cottage cheese stage is something to do with Hot Process but this was supposed to be CP soap). It seemed to go into gel phase okay and isn't zappy (i even cut a little to see how it would lather in my hands and all seems well).

And the one i did last night i added some FO and colour which again traced within seconds. But i put it in my mould on the off chance.

What a disaster

Horribly, crumbly, greasy mess. Don't even want to consider trying to rebatch it at all.

Sorry for the long post. And hope someone can lend a hand. Thank you all very much in advance and a HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL

Since you're only using hard oils/butters, trace is going to be very quick and sometimes the hard oils/butters start to solidify back up as the mixture cools down, so that's most likely your "cottage cheese stage" look.

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Genny

The thing that confuses me though is that the first recipe worked problem free the first 2 times last year.
But now its just not working at all

Do you remember what temps you soaped at last year?
What was the weather like? Perhaps the house was warmer?

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The Soapinatrix! *whip-crack*
- Posting the trials and tribulations of my Soaping Journey!

Hello

The temps would have been about 100 degrees.
Where i am though its always wet and windy and generally cold (Scotland) and i usually have my gas central heating on
if that's of any use lol