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| GrammaWillow |
 Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:56 pm |
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Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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Location: Alberta
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I am not one for waiting for my soap to cure before I can use it, so after making CP soap for a time I stumbled across the age old process of HP and it's the method I use exclusively now. I know lots of people don't like the texture of HP soap and the fact you have to glop it into the molds as opposed to a lovely smooth pour, but after the discovery of Sodium Lactate, my HP soap is a smooth as it's CP sister. I have tried many methods of HP, the double boiler and the oven method but my favorite is the crock pot. I pot the largest crockpot I could get at Canadian Tire (7 quart) after getting tired of having to reduce my batch size from the 8lb down to something the smaller crockpots could hold (and the soap monster wouldn't climb out of). When the soap has traced and I am just letting it cook (on low), I put a wet towel over the lid to keep it moist
The following all vegetable recipe makes a lovely smooth bar, yes you still have to spoon it into the mold, bang it to get rid of the bubbles and smooth it out but the finished products is wonderful with a very creamy lather.
24 oz olive oil
24 oz coconut oil
38 oz shortening
12 oz lye
32 oz distilled water
2 oz Sodium Lactate added to water before adding lye
3-4 oz essential or fragrance oil
2 oz Castor oil to superfat
Melt oils in the crockpot and combine lye solution with oils once the temperatures are each 110 degrees. Bring soap to trace with your stick blender the same way you would do with CP soap. Cover with the crockpot lid and a wet towel and let "cook" on low until neutral (about 2 hours). I test my soap for neutrality using phenopthalein.
Once soap is neutral, mix 2 oz of Castor oil with your fragrance oil/essential oil and any color you want to use and stir it into the soap.
Pour into molds and let cool, unmolding as soon as it's cool.
Soap will be a bit soft but you can use it right away if you want. The longer it sits the harder it becomes and I usually give it 2 weeks to "dry" before wrapping and selling.[/b] |
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| Anne |
| Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:15 am |
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Location: Ontario
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Hi GrammaWillow,
Are you using a sodium lactate solution or do you have the powder? If the powder then where are you buying it?
Thanks, Anne. |
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| GrammaWillow |
| Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:24 pm |
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Location: Alberta
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Hi Anne
I use the Sodium Lactate solution for my soaps. |
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| Soapbuddy |
| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:35 am |
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Location: Palm Springs, CA
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I've read somehwere that if you add sugar to the lye water, it makes it more "pourable"?
Have you tried anything like that? |
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