Teach Soap

This is just a simple plain soap,but friends and myself always love....it always made a very hard bar,
But since I have trouble finding ingredients here I changed my recipe a bit...according to one of my calculators supposed to be a hard bar...and may still be after a long cure....but for now...who knows.

I ran my recipe through 3 lye calculators and brambleberry's fragrance calculator before tweaking one of my soap recipes....temps of lye and oil pot comfortable to the touch.....soap mixed up really nice...faster trace than normal...just a bit...but easy to work with...went through a beautiful gel, and is now translucent, BUT leaking??!! Smells great though. BTW coconut oil in Thailand is always liquid because of the heat.

Anyway, recipe is 6 oz. of castor oil, 6 oz. of cocoa butter, 10 oz. of coconut oil, 10 oz olive oil, four T. Of FO/EO. Chamomile and calendula pre-soaked in part of the oil from recipe.
Scent=2T chamomile, 1T english lavender, 1T chamomile bergamot. 4.54 oz lye in 10 oz. of water.

Hope you can tell from the pics. Any ideas?

Before anyone asks....yes my cocoa butter was tempered.

Looks like my pocs didn't load from ipad either.

Four tablespoons of the scent? That might be your problem. I always weigh everything. Cups and spoons are not accurate. I realize that the Brambleberry fragrance calculator has teaspoons and tablespoons listed. This is one thing that I disagree on. It's not an accurate method for essential or fragrance oils. Always go by weight.

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Irena
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I agree with Irena, you can't tell how much eo/fo you really added. 4 Tablespoons usually makes about 2 ounces though and at a 5% max usage rate, which the eo's you listed have, then you (likely) over-scented your batch by 0.4 oz (5% of your batch is 1.6 oz). Given how inaccurate a tablespoon measure is, you actually could have over-scented by more than that.

While you added what some would consider too much cocoa butter, it should not cause the issue you are speaking of. Assuming you hit true trace, which it sounds as though you did, the best, most likely explanation would be the scent load.

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Tammy

You all are probably right, and I did have my suspicions about the fragrance.....I don't normally use a fragrance calculator, but was being lazy this time. The lye calculator on my ipad showed all my oils/ butters were in acceptable range.......

I started out soapmaking years ago figuring out my own calculations for fragrance and lye amt. for each of the oils I used, and never had a problem. I may have to go back to my old method as making soap over here in Thailand has been a real challenge. The only coconut oil I have been able to source so far has been virgin coconut oil, which IMO is a waste in cold process soap.

By the way my soap looks fine this morning .....just soft....it's going to take an extra long cure time
I think........

Thx for the input....