25 October 2014

SOAP FAILURE - AIR HOLE AND UNEVEN SOAP -

In my very short soap making experience and gathered information from internet, I have found some tips to avoid soap making failure. I am showing my failed soaps and consideration on them.
日本語の記事はコチラ [ せっけん 失敗談 - 小さい穴と不均一なせっけん - ]


left and center have air hole and right one has uneven texture in the middle of the soap

+++ AIR HOLE +++
Another soaps with air hole
This happens because soap batter gets too thick to pour into mold. Then why it gets so thick? It is TEMPERATURE. I mixed blended oil (Olive, Coconut, Rice Bran, Palm, Castor) and lye solution in high temperature. If you do not put any options, it may be okay. You do not take time to pour when it gets trace but if you want to add color, herbs or making swirl, you have a trouble here. Saponification has to go not so fast.

I made two different soap from same soap batter, so it took time to pour the second one (picture above). The first one (picture on the right) I mixed shaved lemongrass soap to very thick soap batter and got many small air holes.



+++ UNEVEN SOAP +++
It was my laziness, I did not melt solid oil fully before mixed with lye solution. It is solved easy, DON'T BE LAZY!!

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