Maybe someone more experienced with HP will see this and answer for us! Love from Oz. Hi, I just started soaping a few weeks ago and did quite a few batches of CP, and all was well. It was so impressive and I was thrilled to have the second most experienced CP soaper in the company with me at the time. I made some coconut milk / cocoa butter soap last week and kept the temperatures really low. I didn’t realise it would hold more heat for longer. As I whisked, I realised that I was looking at CP that turned to HP in the mold. of liquid. and the soap didn’t look awesome when it was done) but it is a fascinating chemical reaction isn’t it? I made a hot process bar soap and completely messed up on the amount of lye I was supposed to use! I now have a great batch of hot process. Thanks for sharing this AM!! It looks like a hot process batch of soap with the varied colors and textures. Sometimes it can be a bit nerve-wracking when your soap doesn’t do what you expect it to do, but it is good to find out that you can be calm under soapy pressure. My invalid neighbour has volunteered to be the guinea pig in my new soap adventures… I’m going to let it cool and keep stirring it every so often, but I’m not hopeful. Sadly the coconut milk scent doesn’t carry through, but coconut milk is still a lovely thing to have in soap. Handmade, cold process, toilet soap with the true goodness of natural virgin coconut oil and fresh coconut cream is naturally cured for 6 weeks to retain natural glycerine in it. the first batch fizzed like the photos, the 3rd batch i let the lyre cool more and also split over 2 moulds, it fizzed not as much as the first. Any liquid carrier oil will do (olive, vegetable or sunflower, almond ect….). Just to let you know – third attempt a huge success, but a bit surprising: it went from trace to the vaseline stage in literally a couple of minutes. This palm-free recipe makes moisturizing and bubbly salt soap bars. It just kept overflowing and overflowing and overflowing …. Yes, you can use this for hot process. If your oils and lye water are at room temperature you are much less likely to have a soap volcano. I have heard of a lot of recipes for hot process goat milk soap and watched a few U Tube videos but the goat milk, honey, and oats are added after the soap cooks for 60 minutes and added at the end. My poor Mum complained when I told her about it…she’s now convinced that her next batch will do the ”bread” thing. No volcano though. I have standard counters in the kitchen that I soap in. room temp. . You might pick up the $15 silicone liner that we sell and build your own box to fit around it? It was just a laundry soap batch, but I think it would have turned out fine to sell too. Yay!! Even though the aloe vera gel said it was 100% pure, it still had some additives in it. Coconut Oil is awesome for laundry soap. I stick it in the freezer just like my goat’s milk until it’s a slushy consistency and add it at trace. The best soap supplies on the internet are found at Bramble Berry. https://www.lovinsoap.com/2016/12/coconut-oil-soap-making-properties-recipes It was crazy…glad I had freezer paper over my countertop! But like I said, my oils were hotter than I normally soap at and it was tracing pretty fast after I added an FO that I knew acted up. I ended up dumping the batch. Its cool but scary. I messed around with Lavender, Pine Needle, Sandalwood (very old bottle) and Jasmine for the hand soaps and they smell great. Doesn't it feel great to be part of the club? Coconut Milk + Cocoa Butter + Coconut Oil + Untested Fragrance = Super Pow Volcano Soap. Thank you for posting pictures and an explanation so I don't feel alone. In 10 years i have never seen this happen! However, with coconut milk specifically, you can expect lots of lovely bubbles that are also extremely creamy. so i guess cooling it would be the big variable that may make tomorrow's batch a success. Anon, Thanks for popping in. We have always soaped at fairly low temps anyway….Mum has also never had a volcano! I add a little shredded coconut (make sure it has set out to dry awhile) and add to my coconut milk soap to act as an exfoliant. I have yet to experience one of these. i've had this happen…just the once. Vegetarian and vegan friendly. Don’t superfat more than about 8 percent to 10 percent or the soap will be soft, have poor lather, … It astounds me that I can buy heavier goods from other US companies, and not be charged nearly as much. Tomorrow is slated for the room temp experiment, wish me luck. i was scared out of my wits. If the recipe called for 32 oz. I cut the soap this evening. Brought a giggle to me this morning…. When I make coconut milk soap, I keep the milk at room temp and subtract my H2O amount from the amount of milk that I am using. I have had soap super heat dur to FO to 200+ degrees and the soap became very much like rebatch consistency, translucent and almost aerated. I’ll know better if there’s ever a repeat. https://www.soapqueen.com/.../marbled-clay-hot-process-soap This palm-free recipe makes moisturizing and bubbly salt soap bars. You might try this https://www.brambleberry.com/Aloe-Vera-Liquid-P3704.aspx and I think you’ll have significantly better luck =), Totally cool! Just exactly what happened to me. Yay! Aussie Soap Supplies might have it too! I've always wanted to do a coconut milk soap, guess I'll freeze it before adding lye!! Coconut milk makes a wonderful soap. I knew the oils were on the hot side…but I've done that before. I now know that I am calm in a soap crisis. coconut milk. Fingers crossed for no explosion. At least I know what it looks like now. or both? I reckon I’ll have a go, should be much less likely to have a volcano. Thanks again! It looked like it was seizing on me, but I kept stiring and it mellowed a little. Lol. Just make sure it is the butcher paper with one waxy side! After it was done erupting, about half the soap was out of the mold and on the table. It’s wasn’t nearly as bad as the first time, it subsided when I put the lid back on, but then it went into a sort of powder. Making liquid soap from scratch can be a little tricky sometimes, but it looks like you got it spot on! =). you are cute. I’ll let you know if I have any success. I thought I’d try a laundry soap that was a bit harder and used Supafry (tallow), along with the palm and coconut that I usually use. I was thinking of making a wooden log mould and just waxing it very heavily with beeswax, and renewing the wax layer after every moulding. And the overflowing. It provides lubrication and breaks water’s surface tension so dirt and oil can wash away. water I would use 22 oz. Wow! Poured into molds (60oz batch poured into two 32oz molds)..and about 30 seconds after pouring, the center started to expand and fizz. Let us know how this one turns out, we are rooting for you! never ever had this happen. However, it remained like that for the next three hours! -Becky with Bramble Berry. =). I didn't get around to soaping it today (but on the plus side, I did get around to approving the new SoapyLove mold design for next week's release! Also — where or where do I find *comfortable* eye protection?? I room temperature soap all the time. At first it went as shown on the pictures and videos I’d watched, and then it suddenly started rising in the pot. You know how it is…. © 2021 Soap Queen • Site Design by Emily White Designs. The only other thing I can think of is that what I thought was a stainless steel pot (it’s an old pressure cooker pot) is not stainless steel. What a sight!! I’m pretty sure mine was from using (stupidly unknowingly!) Thank you, We do like to soap at lower temperature in order to prevent it from getting too hot and creating volcanoes like it did above. https://lovelygreens.com/eco-friendly-cold-process-soap-recipe-instructions I love that you get excited about the soap volcano and that you want to try it again! It settled down and was like a regular batch. I use coconut milk a lot and even CPOP it, so your soap seems like it reacted with the cocoa butter and FO. I can't say this would work every time, but it's worth a try to the folks out there who are seeing one happen, and who also have their eyes and hands/arms protected. This soap turns out really nice, it’s my favorite. !lol Thanks for sharing Anne Marie. I thought maybe my supplier had sent sodium hydroxide instead of potassium, but they assure me this isn’t the case. More: Coconut Milk Soap Recipes | Cold Process Soap Recipes | Milk Soap Recipes | Soapmaking Techniques | Home. thank you so much for showing us the volcano soap- today i had my first volcano and i knew exactly how to handle it- thankfully i was suited up in my safty equipment. Ethics versus cost. Yay! The water wasn’t all that hot, and I just can’t understand it. I’m thinking that may have done it. This will speed up the cool down process for your lye mixture. Now I feel so much better about myself! Do you think it was the Coconut Milk or the Fragrance Oil? 2 tsp bright pink mica + 1 tbsp oil for blending it with. One odd thing, though: I decanted some into a plastic pump bottle, and this morning that bottle has gone completely milky, although all the rest is still crystal clear.