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This technique was developed by Joyce Chance on April, 1995. Ms. Chance agreed for me to share it with you.

I'm sure you will see the great chance of accidents. Please be careful! Follow all safety guidelines provided with the basic soapmaking directions and with your blender!

Here's the procedure:

Use the recipes as described in "Soap Recipes"
(one-pound batches only).

Use liquid fat at room temperature.
Heat solid fats only until melted.

Dissolve the lye in cold water and wait until the
mixture turns clear.

Put all ingredients into the blender (lye/water,
fragrance--everything).

Lock the blender in position, *secure the cover* and process at the lowest speed.

Stop the blender and check the soap often to watch for a thin-trace stage. When you stop the blender, wait a few seconds before removing the cover. Sometimes the soap "burps" when it stops (as a large amount of trapped air comes to the top).

At the thin trace stage, stop the blender. Stir the soap to check for tracing and to allow bubbles to escape. Pour the soap into individual molds. That's all there is to it!

What are the advantages of blender soap? There are many!

First of all, no thermometers!
You're going to experience very short tracing times.

Soap that requires a 30-to-45-minute tracing time by the "cold-stir method" can trace in 30 seconds in the blender!

Soap that takes 2 days to trace can trace within 15 to 20 minutes in the blender. Tracing times are so short, that I don't recommend you use recipes with "cold-stir" tracing times shorter than 30 minutes.

I suggest you use the blender method instead of the "oven method" outlined in some of the recipes in "Soap Recipes." The texture of blender soap is more opaque and smoother-textured. You'll also discover less problems with separation.

The only shortcoming of blender soap is that this process can produce tiny bubbles in the soap mixture. That's why it's important to pour the soap into individual-bar molds at the thin-trace stage. Stop the blender and stir the soap. The soap should be thin enough so that bubbles can escape the mixture and come to the top of the soap.

I hope you enjoy this new technique. We should all be grateful to Ms. Joyce Chance for sharing it with us!--I am!

Best regards,
Elaine C. White



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