Hello y'all!
I've mentioned in the soapy thing thread that I recently got my hands on a tiny bit of lard that I rescued from the aftermath of a BLT night. I'm usually a little more "Mess Around and Find Out" (PG-13 version of the typical phrase ) with my recipes but since I have this tiny bit of lard and won't get more anytime soon, I'd like to use it in a pretty decent recipe.
I decided to use the "Holy Trinity" as a base and make something similar in values to the Tweak #1 soap:
Olive 30%
Coconut or PKO 22%
Palm, Lard or Shortening 40%
Shea Butter 5%
Castor Oil 3%
However, I only have 12-15% of Lard (maybe as high as 17%, but I'd rather play it safe as the bottom of my jar might have some water in it still) and no palm/shortening.
Using IrishLass's veggie oil palm substitute as a base, I came up with this:
Most of the numbers are actually rather similar except for Palmitic and Stearic, but they add up to similar numbers (27 v. 28).
Does this recipe look good?
If tweaks are necessary, just know I can't go over 15% Lard and the only other oils I have are RBO and Avocado.
I've mentioned in the soapy thing thread that I recently got my hands on a tiny bit of lard that I rescued from the aftermath of a BLT night. I'm usually a little more "Mess Around and Find Out" (PG-13 version of the typical phrase ) with my recipes but since I have this tiny bit of lard and won't get more anytime soon, I'd like to use it in a pretty decent recipe.
I decided to use the "Holy Trinity" as a base and make something similar in values to the Tweak #1 soap:
Olive 30%
Coconut or PKO 22%
Palm, Lard or Shortening 40%
Shea Butter 5%
Castor Oil 3%
However, I only have 12-15% of Lard (maybe as high as 17%, but I'd rather play it safe as the bottom of my jar might have some water in it still) and no palm/shortening.
Using IrishLass's veggie oil palm substitute as a base, I came up with this:
Most of the numbers are actually rather similar except for Palmitic and Stearic, but they add up to similar numbers (27 v. 28).
Does this recipe look good?
If tweaks are necessary, just know I can't go over 15% Lard and the only other oils I have are RBO and Avocado.