i am a bit confused

[subham]

after i took out my soap from mould after 24 hours it looks oily in surface and its not so hard. can anyone tell me why is this happening?

 

[Yooper]

It sounds like it wasn't at trace when you poured it, and it didn't finish saponifying. It also could be recipe related. What was the recipe you used?

 

[subham]

40gm castor
270gm coconut
220gm olive
350gm palm
And some herbs

 

[Yooper]

40gm castor
270gm coconut
220gm olive
350gm palm
And some herbsView attachment 38

Lye? Water?

 

[Yooper]

Could you just copy/paste the screenshot of your recipe? Otherwise, I have to put it in the software, etc, and I don't have time right now.

 

[subham]

Water 258gm
Sodium 128 gm

 

[subham]

 

[Yooper]

Thanks! Everything looks good recipe wise (I was wondering if there were too many soft oils, or too little lye).
Two things come to my mind now- and they involve trace. Since palm oil is solid at room temperature, if the temperature that you were soaping at was cool, you could have had a 'false trace'. Or maybe you never reached a nice trace(?) Are you 100% sure you were at trace? Did you pour at a thin or medium trace? Any details can help us. You've definitely got some weeping soft oils there.

 

[subham]

Yeah it was little runny. But i was mixing it for very long time. And the solution was hotter than room temperature coz i had to melt the palm oil.

 

[Yooper]

"Runny" can be ok (sometimes it is pretty thin", but if you never reached trace, then the soap will fail.

 

[subham]

Is it fine if the lye water mixture and oil had different temperatures?

 

[Yooper]

Yes, it can be fine assuming both were reasonably warm to keep the palm oil melted.

Did you actually reach trace before pouring? I think that is the problem, that there wasn't trace.

 

[subham]

I now am starting to doubt myself. Was there trace or not. I thik there wasn't trace

 

[Yooper]

That's my thought. I usually pour at a medium trace, to ensure it's not a false trace or that it isn't really trace after all. I use an immersion blender (stick blender) for most of my soaping because once when I didn't, I stirred for over an hour before getting trace.

 

[subham]

I did use a stick blender. And i mixed it preety long. I have to make another batch. Lets see

 

[Yooper]

If you're not sure, you could try rebatching. See if this one comes together, and if not, rebatch it. It looks like a scrubby gardener's soap with the herbs in there? Is that what it is? (it's hard to tell from the photo).

 

[subham]

Yeah totally. Its filled with anciant indian herbs.

 

[subham]

Do you have any suggestions while rebatching this kind of oily soap?

 

[Yooper]

I don't I'm afraid. The herbs will get darker from the chemical reaction. I'm not sure what the best course of action here is, but I think I'd break it into the smallest possible pieces, melt it, and try.

 

[Daniface24]

try cold process in a small quantity take 3 cup of lye and 5cup of pko and see it will give you good result, then you can now convert it to gm, or you can still look for any oil type u have in your country