fun_4_me_now
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Does anyone know what may be the downside to using virgin oil?
Same question for Red Palm oil, or any clean cold pressed oil.
I have read (via google) that the lower grades of olive oil are considered better for soapmaking, but have been unable to find any reason why.
The main reason I am making soap is to limit the level of contamination in the soap. Everything that I/we use on our skin ends up in our blood to some degree, so I prefer to use ingredients I could have eaten. Aside from the lye, everything I have used is food grade. It is all food!
As my first soap project, I was able to make an olive bar that is 100% olive with 5% sweet almond SF, has a natural green color, and makes my skin so very soft, happy and clean that you would almost think it belonged to a baby! My skin seems to kinda glow now.
One brand that I really liked was using things like toxic metal oxides for color. Their Chromium Hydroxide/ Umber Iron Oxide "olive bar" was only SF'd with olive as a token !!! I don't need that on my skin.
Same question for Red Palm oil, or any clean cold pressed oil.
I have read (via google) that the lower grades of olive oil are considered better for soapmaking, but have been unable to find any reason why.
The main reason I am making soap is to limit the level of contamination in the soap. Everything that I/we use on our skin ends up in our blood to some degree, so I prefer to use ingredients I could have eaten. Aside from the lye, everything I have used is food grade. It is all food!
As my first soap project, I was able to make an olive bar that is 100% olive with 5% sweet almond SF, has a natural green color, and makes my skin so very soft, happy and clean that you would almost think it belonged to a baby! My skin seems to kinda glow now.
One brand that I really liked was using things like toxic metal oxides for color. Their Chromium Hydroxide/ Umber Iron Oxide "olive bar" was only SF'd with olive as a token !!! I don't need that on my skin.
