Why Cold Process Soap Curdles Up (Or Ricing)

So heres a question an online student asked me; why is her soap ricing/ curdling up?

Now sometimes in soap making you will encounter this. Me too encountered this during my early days of soap making.

In pharmacy school we learned to make medicated soaps; but after sometime i wanted to make it more ‘appetizing’ and so i started getting essential oils from the shopping mall carts. 

You know those cost effective RM 5 type (not sure if its still the same price though🫣 this was back in 2008🤪). 

Anyway; i happily added it into my ‘perfect formula’ and bham! It thickens! 

Thats when i found out there is a difference between industrial grade eo, and cosmetic grade. And when you make cp soap; you have to find the one that is CP soap friendly. 

So anyway; this videos shows you what happens and why.

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