Teach Soap

Last night I made my first batch of a honey and beeswax soap. I unmolded it tonight and found that a good amount of the honey sank to the bottom (now the top) and it looks like it never dissolved. I also gave it the zap test and it failed (it might be too soon for it to pass but I'm not sure). My questions arewhat can I do with it now and why might this have happened? By the way I put it in the fridge for a full 24 hours.

It's possible that you did not reach true trace. At what temp did you soap at? When I use honey, I hold back some of the water from the lye water amount, mix it, then add this to the cooled off lye.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

I soaped at 120. I had a 6% super fat and used 1oz of honey (I was only making a 1lb batch) that I mixed in at the end when I would usually add the FO. I had read that it would harden up very quickly so I didn't use my stick blender. I think you are right in the fact that I didn't get a true trace.

If I were going to do a re-batch would it matter if it still zaps?

1 oz. of honey to 1 lb. of soap is too much. Next time try 1 TBS. of honey for a 1 lb. batch. I would try to rebatch. If it still zaps after, then trash it.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

I found that I also need to heat the honey up a little to get the honey to mix in all the way. And I have always used the stick blender. I just need to move quickly to get it in the mold when I get to a light trace.

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