Yellowish - which is the culpret?

[CareBear]

My Flannel Sheets' blue swirls turned out green cause my soap is yellowish.

So I did a little batch to see if it was the FO or the soap. It was the soap

So which is the culpret for the yellowed soap?

Palm Oil 20%

Olive Oil 20%

Rice Bran Oil 20%

Coconut Oil 15%

PKO 10%

Mango Butter 5%

Shea Butter 5%

Castor Oil 5%

[Purple Lilac]

Some say Palm will discolor soap, It has never done this with my soaps though. I have not used PKO so can't say about that. Just used mango

for the first time in soap today so will find out and the RBO I am not that

familiar with that as well, so I guess I have not been much help, sorry.

I had a lily of the valley fo that when I added it to soap it turned it pink

after sitting a couple of days the soap went back to white. So maybe there

is still hope for yours yet.

[CareBear]

Cool thanks. I was thinking the RBO myself.

It's only 12 hours old, still too soft to unmold, so maybe it could turn whiter! I have my fingers crossed!

In the meantime I'm researching "white" oils.

[eugenia]

Who cares? Natural soap=natural colors. That is the beeuty of handmade sioap. Lard will give you a whiter bar than palm.

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[CareBear]

Oh agreed - I love natural colored soaps. But I had my heart set on a blue swirl...

I'll keep that in mind about the lard. I love lard (yes, I do cook with it - use it cold for half the butter in choc. chip cookies and they won'tget as flat and its yummy for fried eggs - cholesterol be damned! LOL) and most importantly they have it in the Pathmark down the street! The Palm Oil I have to get from Whole Foods...

Once I have my recipes set (someday, over the rainbow) I'll order in bulk, but until then...

[Grumpy Girl]

Flannel sheets is a yellow FO, mine is anyway... are you sure it was the oils?

[CareBear]

I wasn't sure, so I made a little batch with no FO at all. Still yellowish.

Now that batch is still in the mold (soft, very soft) since I only made it early this afternoon (CP) so maybe it'll whiten up - maybe....

Any way to hurry this up? I got two soft batches I'm just dying to unmold!!! LOL

[Grumpy Girl]

Weird... is this the recipe that I sent you? Mine usually sets up like a rock within hours, and is bright white in color, and I can unmold in less than 10 hours. I don't know of anyway to rush it at all. Maybe someone else does.

[CareBear]

Mostly the same ingredients as you sent me the other day (you didn't give %s). But I didn't have Babassu or whatever that is so I subbed PKO I think.

Maybe I messed something up, I'm going to make another non-FO batch (a tiny one, now that I discovered my daughter doesn't miss her jewelry box at all) and make sure I used all the right stuff.

[sudsnwicks]

It could possibly be the RBO. When I switched from olive to RBO, my soap was not quite as white as it used to be, though I wouldn't go so far to call it yellowish.

[CareBear]

Mine might be taking forever cause I stuck it in the fridge till it cooled. Don't ask me why - I have no idea.... This next one I'll insulate.

[Scented]

See I would guess the OO. Definitely not the PKO and palm hasn't yellowed my soap either. A combo of Olive and RBO soap I did didn't affect the white either.

[CareBear]

Hmmmm. Maybe it's the Butter Flavored Pam I greased the mold with?? LOL - I used cyclo (think it'll come out?) cause the girl who cleaned my house on Friday seems to have hidden the unflavored stuff...