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Cloudy olive liquid soap
Question/advice. Why would liquid soap be like this? I use mostly olive oil, small amount of castor and coconut. No water, but glycerine. Sometimes is nice clear, brown color and lot of times like this. I also add EO and polysorbate20 (with EO). But i dont think this is problem.
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The EO is the problem.
You have to understand how the molecules arrange themselves in the solution. The reason you are seeing haziness is because the particles that are dispersed throughout the system are larger than 100 nm.
So, you most likely don’t have enough surfactant (soap or polysorbate) to surround the oil particles to a tiny enough size to be transparent or you haven’t used a high enough mixing force to create tiny particles.
Polar molecules and non-polar molecules are not generally compatible. If you don’t have enough surfactant, you’ll get haze.
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Interesting, because i normally do 1-1 EO and Polysorbate20. I mix it together and than pour it in to liquid soap. I will try to make it again and will add more p20. Or i can add more p20 in to soap and mix again?
Thank you
Regards
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