My recipe is: 500gms palm oil, 250gms coconut oil, 250gms veg. oil, 5mls castor oil, 400mls filtered water, 2/3 cup caustic soda, vanilla essence and coffee fragrant oil. If you do muck up mix is it really worth reheating and trying again. Is there anything I can do to get rid of the stickiness of the soap. Pauline From: soapcraft-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:soapcraft-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Soapcraft Sent: Monday, 2 August 2010 3:16 PM To: soapcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [soapcraft] Re: PROBLEMS Did you mix the oil with the lyes or the lye to the oil? Need to know more. What oils and what amounts were used please. And rebatched soap is snotty. Gina On 2/08/10 7:45 AM, "Rouse Pauline A" <Pauline.Rouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: My third batch of soap - not good. When I mixed the oil with the lye it instantly went solid before I could put it into moulds. I think I put too much Palm oil in. Next day grated half of that batch and reheated it and trickled in filtered water slowly. Took another 600mls but it looked like and felt like it had a bad cold (snotty). As it cooled it turned white and was manageable but now feels sticky. What went wrong? Pauline