I'm using this recipe as an experiment. I got a major crack in the mold and slicing one of the halves looks like this:
I melted the solid waxes and mixed them with the liquid oils. After letting the salt-and-lye solution and the oils cool down I mixed them up. I added the fragrances, some olive oil set aside for superfat and the sugar dissolved in a bit of water at trace, and then poured into a 3d-printer mold, with some mica for coloring. The next morning I noticed a large crack in the soap, and the crack had actually forced the mold open. I've had the halves out of the mold for about four days now.
Should I change the recipe to fix this, or is it the process?
I melted the solid waxes and mixed them with the liquid oils. After letting the salt-and-lye solution and the oils cool down I mixed them up. I added the fragrances, some olive oil set aside for superfat and the sugar dissolved in a bit of water at trace, and then poured into a 3d-printer mold, with some mica for coloring. The next morning I noticed a large crack in the soap, and the crack had actually forced the mold open. I've had the halves out of the mold for about four days now.
Should I change the recipe to fix this, or is it the process?