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When a soap batch goes wrong
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M1CHAEL5H1RLEY added Fixing Soap to BEAUTY
20 Nov 09:52
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Step 1In the soap making world, we sometimes make a batch that totally makes us scratch our heads and wonder what we did wrong. So was the case with my Mango and Papaya soap. I had this fantastic 4 color swirl soap. Poured it, popped it in the oven, and the next day it looked like crap. Here it is in all its glory:
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Step 2The design is actually quite nice, but the soap was leaking oils, which means not all the oils had turned into soap.
When this happens I have to cook the soap.
I chopped all the bars up and pour the pieces into a hot crock pot: -
Step 3The soap started melting, and in 45 minutes it was ready to pour back into the molds:
done!
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Step 4At this point I decided I could not deal with pea green mango and papaya soap, so I grabbed some of my hot pick oxide and did a quick swirl:
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Step 5Poured back into the molds:
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Step 6And the finished bars:
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