Re-sizing a batch creates crazy math with oil proportions

[tgirlsoap]

I just copied a batch I made in March and chose "re-size" because the original batch was 35.27oz and I wanted a 50oz batch.

Once I did that I looked at the oil amounts needed and noticed the math was wildly wrong. For a 50oz batch the software calculates 60oz each of multiple oils. The more I look at the oil amounts, the more I see that every oil amount is calculated incorrectly, but lye is correct! Something is off.

See attached
Thanks!
Tommi

 

[Yooper]

I just copied a batch I made in March and chose "re-size" because the original batch was 35.27oz and I wanted a 50oz batch.

Once I did that I looked at the oil amounts needed and noticed the math was wildly wrong. For a 50oz batch the software calculates 60oz each of multiple oils. The more I look at the oil amounts, the more I see that every oil amount is calculated incorrectly, but lye is correct! Something is off.

See attached
Thanks!
Tommi

Can you give me a link to the original and copy? Or the names of the recipes? I need to see both and dig into this. Thank you.

 

[tgirlsoap]

Let me know if you can't open these links. Hopefully you have access to my account.
Here's the original batch ID (7461). It's called "Rebecca's Discovery with Sesame not neem." I created that batch twice on March 1st but ID7460 is off on Palm, so I must have created a new one.

https://www.soapmakingfriend.com/batches/view/7461

Here's the link to the copy. I re-named it Rebecca's Discovery (ID8569)

https://www.soapmakingfriend.com/batches/view/8569

Thanks!

 

[Yooper]

Thank you- we're digging into this as will have it fixed ASAP.

 

[tgirlsoap]

Thank you! I just tried to make a batch with a new recipe and the math is incorrect with this, too. The recipe itself is fine -- but when I turn it into a batch the math goes haywire. The total batch size is 120oz, so Palm, Coconut & Olive should be around 20+oz each, but only Palm has the correct # of ounces.
My inventory is wrong, too, but if there's a way for me to manually change it all I will do so.
Here's a link of today's batch mishap:

https://www.soapmakingfriend.com/batches/view/8577

 

[Yooper]

Thank you! I just tried to make a batch with a new recipe and the math is incorrect with this, too. The recipe itself is fine -- but when I turn it into a batch the math goes haywire. The total batch size is 120oz, so Palm, Coconut & Olive should be around 20+oz each, but only Palm has the correct # of ounces.
My inventory is wrong, too, but if there's a way for me to manually change it all I will do so.
Here's a link of today's batch mishap:

https://www.soapmakingfriend.com/batches/view/8577

Thanks for more info- that helps alot. The developer will be digging into this. I apologize for the issue, and we'll get it fixed as soon as possible.

 

[tgirlsoap]

Here's the original recipe for the above batch (the one I created today). My "Notes" are no longer printing at the top of the page when I print directly from the Recipe page. That just started today. I printed two separate recipes and my notes did not print on either one.

https://www.soapmakingfriend.com/recipes/edit/88131

 

[tgirlsoap]

Thanks for more info- that helps alot. The developer will be digging into this. I apologize for the issue, and we'll get it fixed as soon as possible.

Thanks! I'm laughing because all I want to do is make soap, and I thought using the batch function would be helpful (I never used it before last year) and now it's . . . . more of a head scratcher.

I'm hesitant to mention I found another software bug that actually isn't a bug but other people might find the software confusing.

Under "Custom Additives" if you choose "% of oils" the % you enter has to be in whole numbers. Meaning, 1% is literally entered as "1."

To my mind % are always entered mathmatically using the decimal system so "1%" is written as "0.01." So that's what I did.

It didn't work and I thought there was a new bug. I just entered 1" and the software does the math.

Maybe it's just my brain -- I'm realizing as I type this that superfat, etc are all entered as whole numbers, so I don't know why I assumed this part of the software would be different. But if anybody says the software is broken it could be they're brain works like mine and they're not entering a whole # for the %.

(I hope the way I explained this makes sense!)

And now to make soap!!!

 

[tgirlsoap]

Last problem!!! I just printed my 120oz batch from the Recipe calculator and the calculator says the total batch weight is 124.43oz (printout attached). 23.77 (liquid) +11.88 (lye) +84.35 (oils) = 120oz.
Not sure what's going on . . .

 

[tgirlsoap]

This crazy math goes back several months, which explains why my inventory has been off for so long.
Here's a batch from February that's 150oz and as an example 94oz of cocoa butter is being used and 65,000oz of Apricot oil is being used. Now I understand why my recent batches say I'm out of various oils that I actually have.

https://www.soapmakingfriend.com/batches/view/7213

 

[Alan]

We've fixed that. Can you check it again? @tgirlsoap

 

[tgirlsoap]

It's better! Closer. Not 100%.
I made two 12oz batches yesterday where only one ingredient was different (organic red palm oil vs. palm oil).
Here's what happened.
1. The oil measurements weren't the same even though the % were exactly the same -- the difference wasn't huge but makes no sense to me since the recipes were almost identical and when I created "organic red palm" in the software I gave it the properties of regular palm oil.
2. The fragrance blend on one was totally off. Given that, I clicked "No" for those so my inventory wouldn't go haywire
Here's a link to the batches:

https://www.soapmakingfriend.com/batches/view/8661

Wonky math on fragrance:

https://www.soapmakingfriend.com/batches/view/8662