recipe without coconut
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I have one from my notebook that I like a lot.
When I ran out of coconut I used the following recipe for several 1# tests. In addition to the ingredients below I added various teas, herbs, coffee etc just to play a bit.
This will make about a 1 pound batch so if you want 30 oz. you could double it. Of course run it through a soap calculator. But these produced really nice general purpose soap with good lather and bubbles. A little high in Palm but not at all irritating. And after a couple of weeks they were hard as rocks.
Olive Oil - 82g
Palm Oil - 190g
Vegetable Shortening (Crisco) - 109g
Castor Oil - 73g
Distilled Water (or other liquid) - 173g
Sodium Hydroxide - 59g
You have Palm and Olive already. Most people I know have Crisco on hand. And you should be able to find 4 oz. bottles of Castor oil at the drugstore.
I added 1 tsp salt to water before adding lye for added hardness.
Soaped at 80F and traced in under 10 minutes by hand.
When I ran out of coconut I used the following recipe for several 1# tests. In addition to the ingredients below I added various teas, herbs, coffee etc just to play a bit.
This will make about a 1 pound batch so if you want 30 oz. you could double it. Of course run it through a soap calculator. But these produced really nice general purpose soap with good lather and bubbles. A little high in Palm but not at all irritating. And after a couple of weeks they were hard as rocks.
Olive Oil - 82g
Palm Oil - 190g
Vegetable Shortening (Crisco) - 109g
Castor Oil - 73g
Distilled Water (or other liquid) - 173g
Sodium Hydroxide - 59g
You have Palm and Olive already. Most people I know have Crisco on hand. And you should be able to find 4 oz. bottles of Castor oil at the drugstore.
I added 1 tsp salt to water before adding lye for added hardness.
Soaped at 80F and traced in under 10 minutes by hand.
