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?

Milk and Honey Soap

i just made a soap using my new mixer, used 1% beeswax so i mixed the lye and oils at around 140 degrees f
it traced Quick
but it looked like some oil was separating already?
then i added the essential oils in carrier at around 120 degrees
and it wouldnt blend in?
so because i added less lye, i added extra lye
and it seperated even more?
so i have made a dreaded orange spots soap?
im not sure :(
im miserable about it
it was so thick
and the oil seeps through the top, i sopped it up with tissues
but you can see here, then it wouldnt fill the mold fully
there are spaces
because the batter was too thick

im so sad it didnt work
this recipe has
sunflower
coconut
castor
the given to me shea butter
and beeswax

if it forms i will just use it myself or give some away to be used asap....

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so i htink it was because i decreased the total water weight by decreasing the lye, then i added oil
so i think it was not enough water

i dont know.
its all wrapped up now in a wool blanket because the point of this soap was to do another sunflower soap with gel phase ? less lye to reduce soda ash, and to figure out the super fat through the reduction of lye

but i got lost damn .

so i just checked the soap and its super hot and firmed up and i dont see the dots of oil?

did i ruin it?

actually the best textured soap from the initial trials was the one with the soothing salve and i used half the sample for the 100 gram trial i did but didnt figure out the math
the worry with that one was that
(omg)
the top part separated and turned to oil and i thought it wouldnt form
but it did form eventually hardened and has a nice texture when using

thats why i added beeswax
plus soaping resource dot com recommends up to 2%
so i did 1% and 25 grams of the west african shea butter

omg
i should have just left the oil right
omg

ugh i ruined it twice
this soaping really is a trial in patience

i probably should have just stuck to the original recipe i wrote down, took me all day and night then i didnt even use it
ugh

this soap better be good.

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the soap is really hot! its 10:30 pm now.
i wanted to go to the beach party, but i went to the park and regretted it instead.
the worst part about this soap seems to be the texture.
guess i should have bought a better mixer because there are only two speeds and you have to keep it pressed. it was $21. my cheap shoes cost more money, weird huh.
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i looked up hot process soap and its kind of what my soap looked like earlier
https://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/cold-process-soap/marbled-clay-hot-process-soap/
i dont have any affiliation with brambleberry btw. ive never even bought anything from them.

this is the second sunflower soap, the first one was the cannabis soap and the only thing wrong with that soap was the soda ash, and the bubbles. it was cold process. and i followed the recipe i wrote out. ugh.
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ok its the 3rd 9 in the evening and earlier i was tilting the soap checking it out and some water fell out, lye water. yikes :(
put the recipe through the soapcalc (because i havent been using it, ive just been manually calculating each ingredient) so i ran it through with the additions i made, and this is what i got

Soap Bar Quality	Range	Your Recipe
Hardness	29 - 54	34
Cleansing	12 - 22	22
Conditioning	44 - 69	62
Bubbly	14 - 46	23
Creamy	16 - 48	12
Iodine	41 - 70	91
INS	136 - 165	127

dlooks ok right? but the lye pockets :/
havent unmolded it, its not very firm yet. it does look a bit translucent.

made another soap and will post it as a separate post.

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ok its wednesday and i cut the soap. its got lye pockets. i think i had a mixing issue.
so im going to make this soap into laundry soap or something useful. do i need to rinse out the lye and let it re-dry
i have no idea

its all mottled
looks like some gel phase some not

im kind of sad because its so big but you know last night i forgot the rice i cooked so the bottom scorched and i added some of the soap flakes i cut off previous soaps and i let it soap the bottom of the pan and this morning all the burned rice bits came right off with my finger and water, i didnt even need to use the scrubber at all. im in love with soap making and cant wait to learn lotions when i get my supplies.

see the lye water puddle forming on the bottom... seeping out of the lye pockets.. yikes

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so it cant even be used for laundry soap because i put beeswax. 
so hows a grody wood cleaner ala murphys oil soap but its just grated soap.
at one point i accidentally dripped lye on the table and it ate away at the varnish and darkened it
and it wiped off
leaving bare wood
i need goggles, long arm sleeves, a mask, ive eaten lye twice now, maybe three times and its awful.
its gotten on my skin and i feel it right away. gee.
this reminds me of the gold plating machine and the cyanide gold solution.

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ok i tried the soap. even tried it in the shower. its great. i love the texture of the soap film, its got this unique texture i think its the beeswax. and the benzoin in this...it smells like milk and honey. im going to rename the title of the post to milk and honey soap.

im just worried about the excess lye pockets? what if theres one trapped in a bubble kind of thing.
maybe i could grate the soap and add it to another soap. cos its really got a nice texture and mild sweet and creamy scent.

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hey i just found out alkaline products are great for psoriasis and eczema. i googled: is psoriasis acidic on your skin
turns out it is, and alkaline products that probably rebalance your skin ph will allow the skin to heal itself.

so i want to give all my milk and honey soap to my friend with sometimes psoriasis and loves taking long baths!

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THIS SOAP TESTED PH 8 on July 10!