Hello everyone, I'm quite new to soapmaking (5-6 batches?) and to this forum (been hovering around reading threads but first post!) and I just want to say how wonderful I found most of the replies I see here -- everyone is so friendly and helpful 
That said, I have a question of my own.
I just received some unrefined shea butter and have been wanting to add it to my recipe, but I read somewhere that some people superfat with shea butter at a rate of 1tbs per 3lbs of oil? And this might be a silly question, but if I wanted to use shea butter to superfat, would that mean that I would put 0% superfat when I put my oils (excluding the shea butter) in my lye calculator (I use brambleberry's lye calc), or would I still want to add, say, 5% superfat plus the 1tbs shea butter per 3lbs oil? On the other hand, does it really matter whether I use shea butter to superfat or in my base oil recipe? I was thinking maybe if it was used to superfat, it'll be more effectively moisturizing.. but is that just a myth?
Thanks!
That said, I have a question of my own.
I just received some unrefined shea butter and have been wanting to add it to my recipe, but I read somewhere that some people superfat with shea butter at a rate of 1tbs per 3lbs of oil? And this might be a silly question, but if I wanted to use shea butter to superfat, would that mean that I would put 0% superfat when I put my oils (excluding the shea butter) in my lye calculator (I use brambleberry's lye calc), or would I still want to add, say, 5% superfat plus the 1tbs shea butter per 3lbs oil? On the other hand, does it really matter whether I use shea butter to superfat or in my base oil recipe? I was thinking maybe if it was used to superfat, it'll be more effectively moisturizing.. but is that just a myth?
Thanks!
