peace-love-and-suds
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So I have been making an awesome shea butter bar that seems to be clearing up the acne of anyone who uses it. I have had a minor concern with this bar however since when I use it (and a few others) it lightly burns my face for 20 minutes. When I say burn I don't mean lye burn. The formula:
20% coconut
35% olive
5% Palm fruit
15% palm kernel
20% castor
5% shea
Caprylic 1.9
lauric 16.8
palmitic 10.4
capric 1.7
myristic 6.2
stearic 4.6
oleic 33.2
linolenic .4
linoleic 5.8
ricinoleic 17.5
I recently bumped up the shea percentage to 9% and cut down the palm kernel and palm a couple percentages but I have not used that yet. So the burning applies to this recipe. I often feel the need to use lotion on my face which seems to correct the problem. This kind of blows me away because I figured that handcrafted soap with all its glycerin wouldn't do this so bad but evidently this is a common problem. From what I understand, a facial soap is different (even in the handcrafted community) and must be designed differently. I know that when I use my castile soap this doesn't happen, AT ALL! But castile soap is useless to those people you want to help with facial conditions (especially if they tend to have oily faces). Btw, I only use unrefined organic oils. Thanks.
20% coconut
35% olive
5% Palm fruit
15% palm kernel
20% castor
5% shea
Caprylic 1.9
lauric 16.8
palmitic 10.4
capric 1.7
myristic 6.2
stearic 4.6
oleic 33.2
linolenic .4
linoleic 5.8
ricinoleic 17.5
I recently bumped up the shea percentage to 9% and cut down the palm kernel and palm a couple percentages but I have not used that yet. So the burning applies to this recipe. I often feel the need to use lotion on my face which seems to correct the problem. This kind of blows me away because I figured that handcrafted soap with all its glycerin wouldn't do this so bad but evidently this is a common problem. From what I understand, a facial soap is different (even in the handcrafted community) and must be designed differently. I know that when I use my castile soap this doesn't happen, AT ALL! But castile soap is useless to those people you want to help with facial conditions (especially if they tend to have oily faces). Btw, I only use unrefined organic oils. Thanks.