Adding Stearic Acid to Sunflower soap

so this is the soap from earlier, its not the same recipe as the potentially dreaded orange spots soap thats actually got dreaded lye pockets. its got .7% stearic acid because i read it in this forum post
https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/stearic-acid.43182/

but i formulated a different recipe using the soap calc using up to 10% stearic acid and got this

Hardness	29 - 54	27
Cleansing	12 - 22	5
Conditioning	44 - 69	71
Bubbly	14 - 46	11
Creamy	16 - 48	27
Iodine	41 - 70	104
INS	136 - 165	96

might try that recipe tomorrow for the next soap trial.

hey ive given away almost all the soaps ive made :(
have a piece of each one since the start though.

because i havent bought a tub for disinfecting, and all the specific things for soaping only, and im in a kitchen that i cleaned so i know what it looked like before, im just kind of turned off, its not clean enough, or new enough, this house is pretty old and hadnt been cleaned since i moved in.

anyway here is the pic of the .7% stearic acid sunflower soap.

it firmed up right away, used the submersion mixer.

this is what the soap calc gave me for this soap:

Soap Bar Quality	Range	Your Recipe
Hardness	29 - 54	12
Cleansing	12 - 22	0
Conditioning	44 - 69	86
Bubbly	14 - 46	0
Creamy	16 - 48	12
Iodine	41 - 70	132
INS	136 - 165	64

the recipe is
64.55 grams sunflower oil
.45 grams stearic acid
8.79 grams lye
21.97 grams water

its not adding the stearic acid into trace, its saponifying using the sap value. this is how i formulated the recipe for tomorrow, by saponifying the stearic acid with the soft oils.

have a go at this recipe, tweak it however you like! its a conditioning bar according to the soapcalc, but if you replace about 10 grams of coconut oil it will be more cleansing. its also got a lot of time to add essential oil, so you can reduce the oil by .5 grams and add that at trace, maybe a nice creamy scent like benzoin in .5 carrier at trace,  one drop is probably all you need!
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midnight,
it popped right out of the mold!
i love using the mixer.  such a bright white colour too. will i ever learn how to gel? the first soaps gelled... what happened



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i cut it today (the next day)
it is hard! doesnt press into with firm pressure
it was slow to bubble (3-5 seconds) and the bubbles are creamy and smallish, not big bubbles like coconut oil
the one drop of benzoin didnt scent it at all (booooo) maybe after it sits for a while the scent will come through because i added cedar and .... i forgot, its in my notes

so great!!!

 hey
it doesnt smell like anything because i didnt scent this soap LOL

;-)

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ok so the soap is totally fine cleansing wise. i have been over washing my hands. woops. so now after using the sample in hot water and really rubbing my fingers into it, it has done sometime
pa dah!
totally unexpected and cool!
i think its the glycerine and its forming peaks, and the soap melts but dosent dissolve and is this clear gel for a bit and its, i dont know what it is! it washes off and its just what the stearic acid does, i guess. if *you* know whats going on here post a comment!

so i wanted to add castor oil because i read somewhere (i lost the link :( that it increases the solubility of the soap but i need to look that up again

its so trippy!
also the bar is very hard!
and it did this great thing where it wiped the grease off my finger (bike grease, from my bicycle) only thing is, its a bit drying right at my fingertips because i was using it for too long and really using my fingertips to mush into it, but it didnt mush and stayed its shape (compared to the milk and honey soap- that one needs to cure forever its so soft)
but my grubby hands are totally clean now even under my fingernails.
pretty sweet.

did i make a candle?