sweetbamabrown Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Is there anyway to keep the skin from forming so fast on the soap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWickedWick Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Do you mean after you have it all melted? If that's the case, I put a piece of saran wrap over my container which slows down the skin formation but doesn't eliminate it..it just slows it down. It also depends on how long I have the soap sitting out awaiting to be poured onto my next layer. If left too long it will naturally cool and form the skin anway. When that happens I just remelt it back in when I'm ready to use the rest of my base. I use the double boiler method for melting..not the microwave.Perhaps others have more suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candybee Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 If you have a skin forming on your soap within a couple of minutes you're not heating your base hot enough. You can heat M&P up to 185. I do because I add butters, oils, honey, oatmeal, all sorts of additives that need a hot base to incorporate them.Another problem could be the base is old. Happens sometimes. Someone gave me some old bases they no longer wanted. When I was using them they were very dried out and formed skins and got gooey almost right away.I always keep my base covered when I use the microwave. Now that I mostly use my rice cooker my base is always covered while heating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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