amillion3147 Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 I can't help but reflect back on a batch I made a week ago. I had planned to make a batch but decided against it because it was very late. By this time my lye had been sitting on my counter tightly closed. I figured I would just do my soap the next day. Anyway by the time I got around to making the soap the lye had been out for at least 24 hours. I measured out my oils and all and proceeded to stick blend. As soon as I started to stick blend things started proceed a little different. The oils started turning to a slushy like state and simply refused to smooth out. I had to agressively stick blend this for several minutes to get it smooth out. The oils were also at room temp. Any ideas on what caused this in the first place. I have never seen this before but I always use my lye the same day it's made up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 I always have problems with room temperature oils and lye. I get false trace every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amillion3147 Posted October 20, 2008 Author Share Posted October 20, 2008 Thanks. I was wondering if this may have contributed to this problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CareBear Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 That's interesting. For 2 years I exclusively used room temp lye and premelted and then room temp oils without anything like that. (I finally went to slightly warm lye & oils because I started getting incomplete gel).Was it a new recipe amillion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meridith Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Had you added the FO when this happened? Are you sure your recipe did not rice on you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kymber Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 I soap on the warm side as my tallow recipe does this every single time if I let everything get to room temp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amillion3147 Posted October 20, 2008 Author Share Posted October 20, 2008 That's interesting. For 2 years I exclusively used room temp lye and premelted and then room temp oils without anything like that. (I finally went to slightly warm lye & oils because I started getting incomplete gel).Was it a new recipe amillion?Yes and no. The recipe was for a salt bar with a high content PKO, PO, CO , OO. The only thing I did different was drop the PKO a bit and added some CO. NO FO was even added when this happened. I didn't bother with adding that in until it smoothed out first. The salt was added later on when it appeared to be emulsified. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CareBear Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 if it's really high in hard oils then yes - I agree that room temp is not necessarily your best bet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amillion3147 Posted October 20, 2008 Author Share Posted October 20, 2008 if it's really high in hard oils then yes - I agree that room temp is not necessarily your best bet.Thank you. You can bet I won't be doing that one again with this recipe:) I thought something funky was going on with my lye. Thanks again everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CareBear Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Thank you. You can bet I won't be doing that one again with this recipe:) I thought something funky was going on with my lye. Thanks again everyone.it took me MANY batches to figure out it wasn't my lye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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