I also made a small test batch for a customer. He wants a more moisturizing soap, so I cut WAY back on my coconut oil, used both cocoa butter AND shea butter (in higher percentages) and superfatted a bit. This second batch overheated and grew out of the tube.
You can see that it even cracked on the top. I stuck that baby in the refrigerator to cool it down and it stopped growing at 1" above the disposable mold. I have to admit that I unmolded this one WAY early as it was already pretty hard at 6 hours and I wanted to see what was going on inside. The plastic lining on my disposable soap mold (AKA Pringles can) bubbled with the heat and left me with moon crater soap that smells lovely and I'm hoping will be delightful on the skin - so who cares how it looks?
I miscalculated on my test batch and so I will have two weird shaped soaps...should have put some rope in them so The Army Guy could have soap-on-a-rope. These are 3oz bathroom cups that I had handy when I realized that I had too much soap :)
2 comments:
oh I love your soap! I may need to come to your house so you can teach me. I have made soap once after I read Rhondas blog, down-to-earth, and I loved it, not scary at all. But now, for some weird reason, I am a little nervous about it. I have a huge container of lard for the fats and even managed to buy 2 cans of real lye at Ace hardware, before they removed it from their shelves. I guess the dummies that make meth use it, ughh!! I'll have to stop being a baby and just do it. Thank you so much for being an inspiration, Elaine
Let me know how that superfatted soap works, would you? My mom has very, very dry skin and it if helps your friend (and you have enough) I would consider buying some from you.
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