This soap isn't looking too good. They're cracking and still soft.
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Damn. Bath bomb? 🤙🏽🍻🛀🏽
Maybe, or liquid soap 🤔
Still, it's too soon to say
Sarah said easy, just buy soap from her. She concurred it is probably the ratio. She said type of fat can make a difference too. She said look for an online soap calculator that has lye type, fat type, and additives like essential oils.
Haha, I will definitely be buying more soap from her. It's really good 🫡
Thanks for asking her though. Another person replied with a calculator, and according to that I had a little less lye and a bit more water than was optimal, so I guess I got soft soap that's taking a long time to dry out. I took them out of the molds today, and the bottom halves solidified while the tops are still soft. I'll let them sit around for another two weeks and see what happens.
nostr:npub172mu27r5yny0nnmvgjqwhx055dmsesrrx7j0p5d3pxagfx6xgxfsv75p3q might have some advice from his sister
I heard it’s okay if it cracks, you just never want to drop it
Uh... You never want to drop the soap...
What ingredients have you put into it and what are the ratios? I leave mine to dry for at least two weeks. I make them with olive oil and caustic soda only. Sometimes coconut oil instead of olive oil.
I went by the recipe on the bottle of lye I bought. I may have done my math wrong though.
I used
1 lb fat
2 oz lye
1 cup water
So about 1:8 fat to lye
I use this calculator: https://calc.mendrulandia.es/. Note that you can change the language settings.
It tells you a prediction of cleanliness, conditioning, bubbles, persistence, hardness, solubility, drying, etc., based on the ingredients and quantities that you have used.
So according to this, I used about a quarter cup too much water. So it'll probably just take a lot longer to dry out. But I'm glad my fat to lye ratio wasn't too off.