Cold Process Castile Soap

 ↑       One of  most gooey soap paste I encountered .        3/9/11 to 3/17/11

↑          Cold Process Castile Soap pH Sud test 3/17/11

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1)   As the story goes, making pure olive oil liquid soap is a long process. Oil temperature was around 73ºC (161ºF). When I mixed the olive oil with potassium hydroxide to viscous stage (Not yet totally blended), I still saw some olive oil stayed on top. The soap paste smelled like a kind of eraser scent. How interesting and it really smelled good.
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2)   I had to put the soap pot on stove to keep the temperature to 62ºC (143ºF) over and over again.
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3)   Strangely, the appearance of soap paste tuned from mayonnaise to cake-batter-like again.http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=134058836662574&set=a.133927046675753.26461.133926833342441&type=1&theater#!/video/video.php?v=103554423061261&oid=133926833342441&comments


4)    That was very close to finish. I was hand stirring for two hours already. The other cold process liquid soaps were never difficult like the pure olive liquid soap at 62ºC was..... Do you notice the soap volume raised up due to the mixing?
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5)    The stirring process of my castile soap was finished. Finally I saw the soap paste become translucent. It was the result after six sore stirrings as the soap pot in and out the warm oven and chest cooler. Now is the waiting game for another two weeks for the potassium hydroxide to break down..... Then I will have my doggies shampoo ready.
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