luluzapcat
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I love math and spreadsheets--and yet I'm finding this challenging and frustrating! I'm hoping there might be some shortcuts or simple logic that I'm missing for doing this sort of thing. Just as an example, here's the soap I want to make now:
- highly superfatted (20%) all coconut oil
- in-the-pot swirl, with color portions as below
- 50% white
- 25% a darker blue
- 25% a lighter blue
- blues achieved by using an indigo-infused olive oil I made as my colorant. 1 part infused oil (say 1 oz) added to the darker batter, .5 parts to the lighter blue batter
I presume I need to:
- determine a properly proportionate amount of olive oil to add to make up for the oil doesn't come from the colorant in the white and light blue batches, so that the proportions of each part of the batter wind up the same. In my case, 2 oz plain olive oil added to white portion, .5 oz each of plain and colored to light portion, 1 oz colored to dark portion
- calculate lye for entire recipe using total coconut oil plus total of colored plus plain olive oil.
- mix up batter with only coconut oil
- divide the batch into 50%/25%/25% portions
- add my colorants/extra oil to the portions.
- then do the fun part!
Do I have the right idea? Is there an easier way to think or do this? Somehow I'm struggling to get this planned out nicely for myself. I have seen lots of videos where people are adding colors premixed into some oil, but I haven't seen how they have accounted for that in their calculations. Thanks for any help!
- highly superfatted (20%) all coconut oil
- in-the-pot swirl, with color portions as below
- 50% white
- 25% a darker blue
- 25% a lighter blue
- blues achieved by using an indigo-infused olive oil I made as my colorant. 1 part infused oil (say 1 oz) added to the darker batter, .5 parts to the lighter blue batter
I presume I need to:
- determine a properly proportionate amount of olive oil to add to make up for the oil doesn't come from the colorant in the white and light blue batches, so that the proportions of each part of the batter wind up the same. In my case, 2 oz plain olive oil added to white portion, .5 oz each of plain and colored to light portion, 1 oz colored to dark portion
- calculate lye for entire recipe using total coconut oil plus total of colored plus plain olive oil.
- mix up batter with only coconut oil
- divide the batch into 50%/25%/25% portions
- add my colorants/extra oil to the portions.
- then do the fun part!
Do I have the right idea? Is there an easier way to think or do this? Somehow I'm struggling to get this planned out nicely for myself. I have seen lots of videos where people are adding colors premixed into some oil, but I haven't seen how they have accounted for that in their calculations. Thanks for any help!