Lottee
Active Member
Hello,
I have been using a recipe that i got from a soapmaker (and shop) and it seems to work ok - although I have only just started so none of my bars are fully cured. They look good though! The only issue I had was that i never got a proper trace - only very light, but the soap sets ok so think its fine.
The recipe is in the book like this:
930ml (33fl oz) water
295g caustic soda
615g (22oz) coconut oil
800 ml (28fl oz) oliveoil
800 ml (28fl oz) sunflower oil
60ml EO
So, i have been measuring the liquids rather than weighing. I decided to weigh them today just to see how the resipe came out on soap calc. Not sure if I did this properly, but put a jug on the scale, zeroed it, it poured the liquid.
The sunflower oil was 715 gm for 800 ml - I assume the olive oil to be the same. The water was 1000gm for 930ml.
i used just a standard kitchen jug so I appreciate that it was not very accurate!
So I put my recipe into soap calc as follows
OO - 715
SO 715
CO 615
I followed the advice of EO at 50g per kg.
Soap calc then told me that my caustic soda should be 290.616gms so not far off the 295 I have used.
Water - 777.1 gms. !!
This is a lot less than the 1000gm or 930 ml I have been using. Maybe becuase the recipe was for anyone not used to soap making?
I have never used soap calc before so am not sure if I have done it properly. The soap I made first of all are fine. the ones I made this week Iare still a little too soft to turn out of their mouldstoday (friday a.m.) after making them weds lunchtime. Could this be due to the high water content? I will leave them another day and see how they are - one I managed to get out of the mould and slice but the others were a bit sticky though set.
Also, in the soap bar quality, all the values were in the range apart from Iodine which was 70 (instead of 41 - 70) and creamy which was 13 (16 - 48) bubbly was at the lower end of the range. Does it matter about the iodine level? And how can i increase creaminess? And do I need to?
Sorry for the long post and many questions!
I have been using a recipe that i got from a soapmaker (and shop) and it seems to work ok - although I have only just started so none of my bars are fully cured. They look good though! The only issue I had was that i never got a proper trace - only very light, but the soap sets ok so think its fine.
The recipe is in the book like this:
930ml (33fl oz) water
295g caustic soda
615g (22oz) coconut oil
800 ml (28fl oz) oliveoil
800 ml (28fl oz) sunflower oil
60ml EO
So, i have been measuring the liquids rather than weighing. I decided to weigh them today just to see how the resipe came out on soap calc. Not sure if I did this properly, but put a jug on the scale, zeroed it, it poured the liquid.
The sunflower oil was 715 gm for 800 ml - I assume the olive oil to be the same. The water was 1000gm for 930ml.
i used just a standard kitchen jug so I appreciate that it was not very accurate!
So I put my recipe into soap calc as follows
OO - 715
SO 715
CO 615
I followed the advice of EO at 50g per kg.
Soap calc then told me that my caustic soda should be 290.616gms so not far off the 295 I have used.
Water - 777.1 gms. !!
This is a lot less than the 1000gm or 930 ml I have been using. Maybe becuase the recipe was for anyone not used to soap making?
I have never used soap calc before so am not sure if I have done it properly. The soap I made first of all are fine. the ones I made this week Iare still a little too soft to turn out of their mouldstoday (friday a.m.) after making them weds lunchtime. Could this be due to the high water content? I will leave them another day and see how they are - one I managed to get out of the mould and slice but the others were a bit sticky though set.
Also, in the soap bar quality, all the values were in the range apart from Iodine which was 70 (instead of 41 - 70) and creamy which was 13 (16 - 48) bubbly was at the lower end of the range. Does it matter about the iodine level? And how can i increase creaminess? And do I need to?
Sorry for the long post and many questions!