Comments on: my lye soap turned gritty and separated after adding fragrance oil? http://www.essential-oils-tdr.com/my-lye-soap-turned-gritty-and-separated-after-adding-fragrance-oil/ It's All About Essential Oils Tue, 22 May 2012 10:06:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: carol g http://www.essential-oils-tdr.com/my-lye-soap-turned-gritty-and-separated-after-adding-fragrance-oil/comment-page-1/#comment-1522 carol g Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:26:46 +0000 http://www.essential-oils-tdr.com/my-lye-soap-turned-gritty-and-separated-after-adding-fragrance-oil/#comment-1522 it will probably have to be rebatched, but you really won't know until you unmold and cut it. be on the lookout for small pockets of lye solution. it's called ricing and sometimes you can get past it by splashing in some ice cold water and mixing with the stick blender - that rarely works for me, though, so I usually dump it from the soaping bowl into my crockpot and HPing it instead of molding, praying, and waiting. it will probably have to be rebatched, but you really won’t know until you unmold and cut it. be on the lookout for small pockets of lye solution.

it’s called ricing and sometimes you can get past it by splashing in some ice cold water and mixing with the stick blender - that rarely works for me, though, so I usually dump it from the soaping bowl into my crockpot and HPing it instead of molding, praying, and waiting.

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