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60% lard 20% coconut oil 20% olive oil with a 5% superfatting, I use the following measures: 450g lard 150g olive oil 150g coconut oil 106g lye 250ml water This recipe gives a soap with the following properties: hardness 44 cleansing 14 condition 51 bubbles 14 creamy 30...

well after yet more reading and research, it appears that coconut oil is more important than I thought, and cannot easily be left out without unbalancing a soap. It has two properties that are hard to find elsewhere: it makes a good open-bubbly lather, and it breaks down oils during the...

thanks for good advice everyone. I think I'll go for a EVOO rich blend, probably with lard & palm oil to firm it up a little. I've been reading up on the properties of castor oil & this sounds like a good additive also- maybe superfat at 5% I've heard that lard has good moisturising...

so I could perhaps use a blend of lard (or palm oil) and liquid fat (sunflower. canola or olive), run this through the saponification calcs and get reasonable product?

that was an option that I'd considered. Possibly use good EV olive oil, making a pale green soap which I can lightly scent. I'd also considered using hard vegetable oil (palm oil) and/ or lard. Any advice regarding the usage of these ingredients? The recipes I've seen for these ingredients...

hello, I've been making soap for a few years now using the same basic recipe (off the top of my head I think its 50% olive oil, 30% canola oil & 20% coconut oil). This makes a simple everyday soap- nothing special, just good basic all purpose bathroom soap. My local supplier of coconut...