{"id":3617,"date":"2010-07-14T07:30:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatcakessoapworks.com\/handmade-soap-blog\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2017-09-19T21:01:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T03:01:32","slug":"rebatch-gone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatcakessoapworks.com\/handmade-soap-blog\/index.php\/rebatch-gone-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebatch Gone Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is my miserable story about the soap that is NOT going to make it to the shelf. Several days ago I made a double batch of Oatmeal, Milk & Honey soap and forgot to add the rice bran oil. Even as I was putting the oils together in the pot I was thinking that it was odd that I only had two liquid oils in this soap. I checked what I had written down – and there was my problem. I didn’t check the original recipe, only what I had written down!<\/p>\n

Well, after the soap level wasn’t as high as usual in the mold, and the goat’s milk turned the soap orange, I realized my mistake. <\/p>\n

I waited about a week to do anything about it because I HATE to re-batch. It’s such a pain. Especially with the enormous batch size that I make. Takes a lot of time, not to mention energy to use the oven. Well, Sunday afternoon was unseasonably cool, so I decided to just try re-melting one of the two logs. I started by cutting the soap into chunks that my salad shooter could process:<\/p>\n

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Soap chunks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then, I started feeding the chunks into the salad shooter. I used a pot that was plenty large because the shredded soap takes up a lot of space:
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Shredding soap<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Next, I added the missing rice bran oil:
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Pouring in rice bran oil<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

I put the pot in the oven at 200 degrees for about four hours. I pulled it out to stir every hour or so. This is what it looked like right before I put it in the mold:
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Melted soap looks like cookie dough!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Then I smashed it back into the mold:
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Soap in the mold<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Tried to cut the soap, and it’s super crumbly now:
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Oh great! Botched it again...<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

I’m guessing either I didn’t cook it long enough, or I should have added some liquid. Either way, Clean the World<\/a> is about to get another box from me. I’m done messing with it!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is my miserable story about the soap that is NOT going to make it to the shelf. Several days ago I made a double batch of Oatmeal, Milk & Honey soap and forgot to add the rice bran oil. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[414],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botched-batches","tag-rebatched-soap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t