What to do when your fragrance oil accelerates to soap in a bucket! 

That was the most intense acceleration I've ever seen! Well done keeping your cool, that is admirable

😲😲😲 I love how you just laughed it off. I would have been cursing up a storm. Hubby heard me from across the house saying “oh no, oh no no no etc” and yelled “accelerating or ricing?” 🤣

Love your giggling over that naughty soap dough 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👌 a couple days ago I had EXACTLY the same situation with rose fragrance, but I also added a high % of pure raw shea butter 😅🤦‍♀️ so it was a double trouble and i was deeply disappointed in soap making further experiments 😭😭😭 Thanks for sharing it with us 🙏 it's appreciated and encouraging not to give up. I'm new in soap making and learning from all these stories 😅

That went from liquid to concrete in about 10 seconds!! That was crazy!! Still love the end product though. Reminds me of "peasant soap" that a friend of mine would make.

I actually like the way this looks!! Nice save 💪🏻

Ohhhhh my goodness, I had to laugh along. I just did a rose soap over the weekend. It didn't misbehave quite that much but it was still a stinker. Too cute!

I've had soap accelerate but, holy cow! That white was HARD. As you said though, it's still soap, and will probably be lovely to use. Good for you for rescuing it.

I’m so impressed with you humor as things go wrong!

I ran into this with the dragons blood and I was definitely not as calm as you were. I really appreciate you sharing this because I wasted a whole batch thinking it was a total loss. So sad! I'm glad to know there is a way to salvage it now. Thank you!!

I can sympathize with you. I had a soap accelerate on me, but I was quick enough to get it into the mold. The next day I unmolded it and was surprised to see that it looked alright. Boy, was I wrong! As soon as I cut it it fell to pieces. So I chopped it fine, put it in a crock pot with a bit of water, turned it on low. I kept stirring it every 15 minutes until it melted. I took an old hand mixer, beat the crap out of it and put it into single molds. It came out beautifully. So there is always something you can do with soap.

OK, I've watch it not - OMG that was mad, but it was lovely to hear you giggling away, you put a bit smile on my face. That looked like hard work

Thank you for sharing, I appreciate your experience.

When I first started making soap one of my soaps did that to me. I just grabbed the gallon of milk out of my refrigerator and started pouring some milk in and stirring really hard I ended up with a peach and white colored soap it was supposed to have only been Peach colored. The soap was really luxurious and lathered great. It wasn't the prettiest soap butt I really enjoyed using it.

Awesome and brilliant save.. 👏😀

Great SAVE! All was not lost!❤❤❤

Oh my, how quickly did that set up!!! You did an amazing job getting a nice looking soap from it. Normally, when soapers do a HP to save a batch, it ends up looking really 'rustic' with lots of holes, but yours looks wonderful. I honestly don't know how you do it, but even your problem soaps turn out lovely. I was using gold mica with Lady Million fragrance the other day, and boy, did that move on me, but not as bad as this did. Great save Keeley. Keep up the great work. 🤩🤩💖

I have been there recently! Love your attitude!

Nice save. I think it's really cool looking. 😎

Cedar Rose... aka Cease a Rose lol 🤣😂🤣😂 My goodness what an adventure this was today!!! As always, you come out on top as the winner you are!!! Awesome job!!!

I had a Christmas pine scent last year that did this exact thing too!! It actually had about the same colors. It looked pretty good when I cut it, I added a gold swirl stamped on it!!!! Glad to see u had a good laugh with this one instead of stressing!!

Great save and a top tip for an accelerating fragrance. 💕

Great job keeping your cool under pressure. Soaps that accelerate that fast can be saved and you’ve proved that! It turned out great, like fruit cake, ha! Lovely Soap Keeley! Bravo! 👏👏👏

Keely you handle it gracefully. Thank you for sharing.

i love your cheerful disposition, staying positive is so important. hugs

I am so pleased you posted this. I am just beginning to make soap and have messed up a batch but couldn't work out the problem or how to fix it. It's great to have someone who shows the faulty as well as successful batches so you learn how to problem solve. Thanks so much :)

Great video!! Still soap is wonderful!! Thank you for sharing

I think this video is amazing, so many of us are learning so much thanks to you. honestly, thank you so much!

Such a nice and informative channel. I am glad to have found it. I subscribed right away.😀

Loved this video. Kudos for keeping calm. Out of something bad, something good always follows!!!!

I love wen you show us your mishaps. Just shows how real you are

Thanks for being a problem solver...that was a great video👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 Love watching you.

You have such a great such of humor and attitude. Good save

Loved ur sense of humour and positivity. U made my day.

Beautiful

I think it turned out nice in the end!🎉

I really appreciate you posting this! My one soap bar has been going wrong for unknown reasons so I'm glad to see I'm not alone and these things can still be salvageable. You're awesome! The bar still looked gorgeous to me.

Lol, what a mess! You are a total rock star! Nice save! 😊

Thanks that was encouraging

It still looks pretty to me. Thank God you took this mishap so lightly and fun!!

I love how rustic it looked at the end there, really good to see how you turned it around ❤

I've never seen soap get that hard that quick. So glad you could laugh at it Keeley

Wow! Experience and calmness under pressure pays off ! What a great save!

I love you! This one made me clash back and i was so happy to know anything is possible and your so real about the fixes. Im no longer as discouraged about my goofs when they happen . Big bubble hugs from Texas

I like it!! You could call it, planned chaos! Unique!

I just love how you laughed the whole way through! That was also a really good save! My partner calls me Calamity so I may or may not know what your talking about with the everything goes wrong days!😂😂

Yes, it has done for me three times in my journey of soapmaking

My friend...I must say that it still came out a stunning bar of soap. Kudos for your fast thinking.

Oh you poor thing, wow you kept your cool well done 👍🏻

I’m so sorry. This is very helpful because I’ve also experienced something like this.

OMG I had to laugh out loud. THIS HAPPENED TO ME 😂😂😂😂😂. Glad to see it happens to a professional. Love the fact you laughed all the way through it 💐💐💐

Great save Keeley! I am still going to buy it, only because you are a miracle worker and I can already smell the fragrance! LOL!

UGH... Last week I made a loaf and used sandalwood. The batter was perfect ....UNTIL. as soon as the sandalwood hit the lye it did just this. BUT because I did not know to crockpot it, I threw it away. I am glad I found this video. I watch all of yours, but this one hit me in the feels. Thank you for completing the process. Now I know what to do. I love your channel, your personality, and soaps. Big hugs from Texas

I love this!!! Some of the best things I’ve ever done in my life were ooopsies.

I think that's one of the prettiest rescues I've ever seen haha. Nice job! So frustrating when that happens but you have a great attitude

Thanks for this, as a newbie to CP soap that was pretty much my first soap exactly and I almost gave up...but since have made some decent looking soaps. Love your channel and your amazing attitude.

Thank you for giving me hope if this should happen to me that you can rescue your soap!

Thanks Keeley that was a great video to watch. Yes the panic is real lol. This has happened to me a couple of times. The soap reminds me of an Italian ice cream desert called Cassata.

Oh my goodness Keeley, I've never seen soap go that bad. But I say its a win, it looks good!

You're reaction cracked me up! When it happened to me with white chocolate fragrance oil...I grated it and used it as confetti in a new soap.

Love it

lol Your laugh all the way through was awesome. I'd have thrown it.

Hahaha... I've had this happen. It is heartbreaking at the time. Good fix. Thanks for sharing. It is still pretty. No loss in my book.

Nice save, they still look great I think. It reminds me of my mocha soap (it seized up) They can sure make us soap makers move fast!

My most popular soaps are those that go wrong. But that's only me that knows they went wrong. My first lavender soap was totally covered with ash, so much so I couldn't see the swirls not even the colour. Another one seized so badly I thru all the colours in my bucket gave it one big stir and then slammed it in the mold. Once you plane and bevel those bars, they will be lovely!! 💞

That's a great idea to HP the soap Keeley. I just made soap and it seized quite aggressively, I was so shocked, it was supposed to have been a swirl so now its just globs of two colours smashed down together quickly with a spatula breaking trying to get it out of the bucket. I dread unmoulding it tomorrow. At least it smells gorgeous and has lovely oils and butters, it's saving grace. I used essential oils but I think the combination made it seize; lavender, rose geranium, patchouli and a little clove. I loved how you just let go and laughed...it was lovely to hear. I am so glad that you managed to save it, stills looks good, I am sure it smells great and will feel fantastic!

Ai Keeley...I so much admire your videos like this one, I watched the Dragon's Blood when they came out and sympathised with you; now I love that you're having a good laugh and showing the possibilities...I have these type of soaps under the category of "Simple Bar of Soap" and people love them, no one named it as a flop as yet. Here in South Africa we also struggle with fragrance oils, I feel you and Thank You for having a laugh about it, so refreshing and so honest 😀🧜‍♀️

That what my latest floral FO did to me yesterday and then I continue watching, yours is waaayyyyyyy worse. I love re-batching, and you've taught me that you can save some color even with this process.

Oh dear, Keely at least you were laughing about it, some of us would have cried. I had it happen once when I mixed two lemon fragrances together, I was so upset, I threw it away, it was early on in my soap making journey, but thanks to you, I now know I can save it if it ever happens again. Good save!

Oh no, Keeley! I've not watched yet, but instantly feel your pain. Right I'm off to get a cup of tea and watch whilst having my fingers crossed for you

Just happened to me! Mine is like chunky soup. Have put it in the crockpot. I hated the thought of waste and throwing it out. Thank you so much!

Wow. I have not seen that acceleration before. What a save

i love rose scented soap. and cedar.

Loved this video.... and your humour was fantastic! I have only had this happen once before. I cursed at the fragrance for messing up my plans for a beautiful design and then grabbed the slow cooker lol. It wasn't pretty but as you say .... It's still soap :D

Brilliant video and Thanknyou for sharing!! I had it happening twice. Once I had to leave everything overnight to wash later. Second time I managed to put it into the mould. It turned out so hard I had to hack it with the ice breaker. Other than that it was a decent soap with home dried orange zest botanicals staying nice and orange!! Hilarious.but it does happen . You made it so funny. Thank you again!!! 💗💗

That escalated quickly 😳😲 lol. I was over here like : phuck Phuck PHUck PHUCK ! Get it out ! Lol 😆

Thank you for rhis ive had several batches go awry.

I’m sorry but I have to laugh 😆. I’ve been there too. You handled it like a champ! The soap turned out really nice. Great job!

You made quick set cement lol, but i love these videos, cause it shows us newbies that even seaoned soapers have bad days

Man I wish the ice cream scoop would have worked that would have been adorable

For being a frustrating, unplanned soap, it sure turned out pretty! I'm sorry you had fragrance frustrations but I love how you transformed your soap into a workable batch rather than just throwing it out.

This happened with my second ever batch of soap. It accelerated within around 5 seconds and my whisk was stuck in the bowl of hard mix! I shoved it in a slow cooker and hot processed it - came out ok but not perfect. It smells wonderful and looks rustic but a cool 'blue, green' cheese - a great guy soap

O my goodness! Dang rose fragrances. Looking forward to the real version where everything works out perfectly 😉

I had one that accelerated like that but I got lucky it also started to go into gel phase also so I could at least get it in to the mold plop style

I like that soap

Ohhh yes. Last week. I posted this on one of the groups I'm part of on Facebook. It was one of those days. And we are still waiting for the sink fix. Oh and let me add that I had to HP the soap because it did NOT go well. Part of it was nothing but liquid, part of it went crumbly hard really fast. "I started making a woodgrain soap. It was going great. Bit of a different recipe in that I put milk in it and less shea butter than I usually do but it isn't the first time I've used it either. I divided it into 5 colors like you do, added fragrance, kept one container of a larger amount than the others to add to like usual. The smaller containers are staying nice and fluid and it's looking beautiful. But then I noticed that the larger amount is starting to set up... FAST. No idea why considering that everything was exactly the same between ALL the containers except that the big one had the most raw soap in it. So I figured ok, if it's going to set up, I'll drip the other colors in first, then add the setting up stuff on top. Didn't work because the bottom was too fluid so I plopped the setting up stuff into the mold inside the more fluid batter and used a spatula to hopefully break it up and mix it some. Really think I'm going to have to hp this one once it's done. While a bit frustrating that isn't really what set me off. I was in the middle of cleaning up and managed to drop a glass container of fragrance on the floor so poof fragrance and glass on my floor. Then I was moving all the rest of the stuff to the sink and managed to drop raw soap covered dishes on the floor in front of my sink and I stepped in it. I had the sink water on and needed to clean the raw soap off the floor and my feet so I turned off the sink and what do I hear.... ALOT of water from underneath the sink and dripping onto the floor. So now we have a leak under the sink so we can't use it until it's repaired, and it looks like the water was coming from the side with the garbage disposal (which we never use) so... Well last time we had someone out to look at it, the repairman said that it's on its last legs. I don't put soap down there so I have no idea but I'm so sick of the problem that we're going to call someone to come out and remove the bloody thing and just put plain old pipes down there. One more thing... I don't know what's causing my soap issues. I've had nothing but problems with every batch I've made for the last month. I have no idea whats causing it. I soaped at 3 am today thinking that it might prevent some of the problems since it's a cooler temperature but nope. Now my neck hurts. Think I pulled a muscle."

Here is what I learned: a. every soap maker needs to have the skill and the equipment to hot process just in case b. every new ingredient you use need to try on a very small batch first . Thank you for sharing

I’d call that Rocky Rose as it’s rugged and chunky and rocky textured 😊

LOL 😂. Great reminder to remain calm during chaos 🤪

Woah, that set up quick! Nice save though. Still looks nice. What would you recommend for those who don’t have a spare slow cooker?

When my cold process behaves badly , I hot process it too, add water to it, and the end one cup of yogurt to make it fluid, I add my fragrance oil at the end when it is fully cooked. Happy soaping 🧼

well you are not the only one my fragrance oil started to cook but i put it in an ice bath , watched the temp and i saved the soap i thought it was going to cook till black. the ice was a savior. LoL wooo ! La Wicca Products

Thanks. God bless. I make soap for gifts. It's fun. Wish I could make it better but I have fun doing it

She just laughed the fuck out. Girlll I love youuuuuu❤

This is just what happened to me ten mins ago. Haha! 😳slapped it into the mold,squished it down as much as I could, then covered the ugly lumpy top with botanicals. Hahaha! Lets see how it looks tomorrow. Never ever had this happen before. Lets see if mine looks as good as yours. Thanks for sharing.

I lovehow you just laughed 😂

it's happened to me today 😅😅 my one is so hot when I pour into the mould and I don't know what to do so I'm trying to find something on internet what is going on to my soap and I found you 😂😂

That was some serious acceleration. Good save.

Holy cow! I had to laugh with you because that was crazy!

Hi! Thanks for sharing. I made my first batch of 100% coconut oil soap today and added 5% of fragrance oil. I used a hand whisked and within a few minutes the batter got thick, grainy and transluscent. I am not sure if this was a) a false trace b) what I could have done to save it. I poured it into the mold because I had no clue what to do. I would appreciate your insights on this.

This is pretty much what happened to me today, except mine was gelling unevenly and super hot and extra crumbly. I put it all in my crockpot and im going to have to try to remelt it tomorrow.