claireobell
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Hi all! Have been searching on here are can't find the answer I'm looking for! I made a cp soap the other day with coconut milk (first time) which I added frozen to my lye and topped up with water. It all mixed in fine although it turned a light brownish colour, went and melted my oils and when I came back to it half of it had turned solid floating on top! I figure that is the fats from milk saponifying, I stirred it up a bit and made my soap which at first I thought would be hideous brown but it turned out lovely albeit a bit soft! So my question is this: does the fats in the milk add to superfat level? My recipe on soap calc was Superfatted to 5% and there is no option on there to add coconut milk fat. Should I be keeping superfat low to make up for the extra fat? And one other thing - if the lye had already saponified the coconut milk then would there be less lye to saponify the oils in my recipe?
Sorry for the long question and thanks in advance for your help!
Sorry for the long question and thanks in advance for your help!
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