Pine Tar Soap-Small Blue Mold

Making pine tar soap is straightforward, like most batches of cold process soap . It will come to trace very quickly, however, so you need to make a couple of adjustments to your standard procedures.
Mix at low temperatures. You can try your batch with lye at room temperature and the oils at about 85 degrees.Use a lot of water in your recipe. A 2:1 ratio of water to lye is recommended but for this recipe, your water may calculate at about 2.7 times the amount of lye.
Adjust your recipe to be slower to trace. Include slow-to-trace oils like lard and olive and remove quick-to-trace oils like castor and palm.
Be careful with fragrance or essential oils that may speed up trace. Lavender tends to slow down trace.
Don’t use a stick blender. Whisk it to mix it.
While you measure out oils, put the can of pine tar in a large bowl of very hot water. This will help make the pine tar a bit more pourable when it comes time to add to the soap pot. While the pine tar is warming up in hot water, measure and begin melting hard oils. Once the hard oils have been melted, take the pot off of the heat.
Add the liquid oils.
Add Essential Oils now.
Now you add the pine tar. It's sticky, so you can measure it right from the can into the soap pot . Note that this only works if you can put a hot soap pot on top of your scale.
Put your soap pot on the scale and carefully measure out the correct amount of pine tar in the heated oils. Stir the oils and pine tar very well.
Mold. CUT AFTER 24-36 HOUR