Help! Soap is soft not sure what went wrong this batch

[Tbyro002]

Hello! I am relatively new to soap making, but have had quite a few very successful batches. I just tried to make a new batch today and I don’t know what went wrong. I typically hot process and have made this recipe several times before. The recipe is included below with all of the weights. Fragrance was also added, Bramble Berry’s Peaceful Lavender, which I had used in a batch before. I also used quite a bit of mica powder this time for coloring. Please help!

 

[Yooper]

Did you run it through the calculator to ensure all of the amounts of lye, water, oils, etc are correct?

 

[Tbyro002]

I did! I use bramble berry’s lye calc

 

[Yooper]

Unfortunately, I can’t see that so I am of little help.

 

[Tbyro002]

Here’s the screen shot- I’ve done this size batch in the past and had everything written already so I didn’t need to re-run it through this calc

 

[Yooper]

What’s the intended superfat?

 

[Tbyro002]

5%

 

[Yooper]

I don’t have time right now to run it through our calc and check, but if you’ve done it before and it worked, there are only really three possibilities- mistake in measuring, the fragrance oil causing rivers/ricing, or a mistake in ingredients (using EVOO instead of pomace).

 

[Tbyro002]

I must have mis-measured one more question- which maybe will govern some clue? It started “sweating” which my other batches didn’t do

 

[Tbyro002]

Here is a picture- the liquid is yellowish in color

 

[Yooper]

That could be glycerin rivers- it’s hard to tell from the photo though.