Rah
Well-Known Member
Hi,
I'm a relatively new soap maker and have recently been trying to make soap with my housemate. We are both vegetarian and live in a communal house with 6 other people, all of whom try our best to live in an environmentally conscious way.
I made a coffee soap recipe a few years ago (before I turned veggie) that contained tallow. It was my first ever soap and it came out really well - the bar was very hard, had lots of bubbles, lasted ages and got any smell off your hands. I would like to recreate that recipe, however I do not want to use tallow this time around. I've heard palm oil is the closest vegetable substitute, but we don't want to use that either because we disagree with the methods used to obtain it. I don't think we want to even go for "sustainable" palm oil. Is there anything else we could use that would have similar results in terms of bar hardness and longevity?
The recipe also contained olive oil and coconut oil. Could I just skip out the third oil altogether and just make the bar with those two? Or should I add another oil to give it that same hardness as before?
Any advice is welcome! I'm sure many of you love to use palm oil and have great results, but for us it's just not an option we're willing to go for.
I'm a relatively new soap maker and have recently been trying to make soap with my housemate. We are both vegetarian and live in a communal house with 6 other people, all of whom try our best to live in an environmentally conscious way.
I made a coffee soap recipe a few years ago (before I turned veggie) that contained tallow. It was my first ever soap and it came out really well - the bar was very hard, had lots of bubbles, lasted ages and got any smell off your hands. I would like to recreate that recipe, however I do not want to use tallow this time around. I've heard palm oil is the closest vegetable substitute, but we don't want to use that either because we disagree with the methods used to obtain it. I don't think we want to even go for "sustainable" palm oil. Is there anything else we could use that would have similar results in terms of bar hardness and longevity?
The recipe also contained olive oil and coconut oil. Could I just skip out the third oil altogether and just make the bar with those two? Or should I add another oil to give it that same hardness as before?
Any advice is welcome! I'm sure many of you love to use palm oil and have great results, but for us it's just not an option we're willing to go for.