soap

I cut my soap today a recipe i came up with all by my self and the soap calculator of course. the first batch was a olive oil soap. i made it and stirred it by hand. I poured it when i thought i had trace but now i don't think i did. when i cut it it was like cutting mozzarella cheese on a very hot day, you know when it sticks to the knife and you have to scrape it off with your finger and you never get it all off the knife. my batch was olive oil based but had some other added oils as well. the trick with soap i discovered is stirring and not just stirring, whisking or beating. A stick blender would have came in handy. I'm not making another batch with out one. i tried to use this old beater we had and never used it worked slightly better that hand mixing but not much i think more power is the key. that is the batch i cut today. the consistency was a lot better. it actually cut and not smooched like the first. when i washed the residue off my hands it actually felt like soap, bubbles and everything.