Summary The setting time, syneresis, and gel‐strength of gels of sodium palmitate, sodium stearate, and sodium oleate in toluene, xylene, cymene, pinene, chlorobenzene, bromobenzene, p‐chlorotoluene, n‐amyl, n‐ and i‐butyl, n‐ and i‐propyl, and benzyl alcohols, o‐cresol, glycerol, anisole, and phenetole, have been measured. For gels in any given solvent the setting time and extent of syneresis decrease with different soaps in the order, NaOl>NaStr>NaP, and the gelstrength increases in the order, NaOl<NaStr<NaP. for solvents belonging to a homologous series the setting time and extent of syneresis of soap gels increase and the gel‐strength decreases as the series is ascended. An explanation for this behavior is offered in terms of the constitutive properties of the solvent molecules.