Help with face soap recipe

[AussieSoaper]

I would like to make a soap especially for use on the face. Found this recipe via google & put it in soapcalc but I don't know because most of the scores were out of the normal scale.

Any thoughts?

Summary:

Nourishing & moisturizing, great for difficult skin conditions.

Ingredients:

OILS:
2.6 oz Sweet almond oil
2.6 oz Castor oil
2.6 oz Coconut oil
2.6 oz Grapeseed oil
21.4 oz Olive oil

LYE/LIQUID:
4.3 oz NaOH/Lye
11.4 fl oz Water

SCENT:
1.4 oz Lemongrass EO
(can add another 0.5 oz. Tea Tree Oil for treating acne)

Instructions:

Pour lye into water, stir until clear. Set aside to cool (c. 100-F)
Heat/melt all oils, cool (c. 100-F).
Pour lye/water mixture in slow steady stream into the oils. Stir to trace. Use stick blender intermittently with spoon (no more than 1 minute at a time for blender).
Add scent just before pouring into mold.
A good mold for this batch is an empty "Parmalat" milk container. Don't cut off the top, just slice it open so that you can refold it closed to help keep batch warm for first 48 hours. Soap should slip out easily, allowing for possibly one more use of the mold (otherwise just peel it off). Will yield nice, palm-sized rectagular shapes once cut.
To help container keep its firm shape, reinforce sides and bottom of box with packing tape.
Container should hold most or all of the 2lbs of soap, but have an extra individual mold or two around to catch any extra soap.

 

[IrishLass]

The 'soap bar quality' numbers may be out of SoapCalc's 'normal' range, but no worries- those 'soap bar quality' numbers need to be taken with a grain of salt anyway since they are based only on a handful of general factors, as opposed to every factor that goes into making a batch of soap. In other words, they are not written-in-stone absolutes that one should never fall short of or exceed, but just general, 'ballpark' predictions of what you might expect from your soap's performance.

Looking at the recipe on SoapCalc, it looks to me like it should make a really nice facial bar that's gentle on cleansing (but will still clean), high on the conditioning (especially good for the face) and a bit on the softer side as bar soaps go, but it should still harden up nicely after cure.

It looks worth a try to me.

IrishLass