{"id":1388,"date":"2017-07-23T14:39:10","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T19:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2017-07-23T14:39:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T19:39:23","slug":"soap-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"Soap Fluff Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made our saboun al ghar inspired soap today. First attempt at hot processing soap, and I had a massive soap explosion. I&#8217;d read that your container should be at least three times the volume of soap you are processing. I went with five times in an attempt to stave off a big mess. Blended my pomace olive oil and lye\/water\/salt mixture to a light trace, and set it over medium heat. It thickened, just like it supposed to. It turned into a gloopy oily mess, just like it supposed to. For future reference &#8212; the gloopy oily mess stage is where you want to keep a close eye on it and\u00a0<strong><em>don&#8217;t<\/em><\/strong> look away for a minute. I turned back around and saw odd foamy soap stuff pouring out of the pot. Oops!<\/p>\n<p>I scooped the soap fluff off the side of the pot and back into the pot and stirred it down. The fluff quickly turned into a slick substance that\u00a0<em>did<\/em> look exactly like petroleum jelly. I added the laurel berry oil, stirred well to incorporate, and let cook for a few more minutes until it looked like petroleum jelly again.<\/p>\n<p>The whole mess was glopped into my large <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brambleberry.com\/18-Bar-Unfinished-Birchwood-Mold-P5168.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">silicon lined wooden soap mold<\/a>. Now it just needs to set for a while and harden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made our saboun al ghar inspired soap today. First attempt at hot processing soap, and I had a massive soap explosion. I&#8217;d read that your container should be at least three times the volume of soap you are processing. I went with five times in an attempt to stave off a big mess. Blended &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[266,126],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soapmaking","tag-hot-process","tag-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}