tabutne
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Hi all,
I have been working on shaving soap for some time and have reviewed all the information I could find here and on other shaving specific forums. My question is if your stearic acid is high (58 on soap calc using a combo of stearic acid and butters high in stearic acid) and you are doing a combo of NaOH and KOH can you actually CP the soap successfully? I know I can HP it but it does not give a good texture to the finished product. It comes out really light and airy and I pour into a 3" circular mold that always leaves me with air pockets in the soap when I HP.
I CP'd last night but ended up with oil separation.
Also, since I realize I am sort of making a cream soap without supercreaming the recipe I superfat at 5%. But, if my recipe uses 65% KOH then do I have to just make a cream soap?
I have been working on shaving soap for some time and have reviewed all the information I could find here and on other shaving specific forums. My question is if your stearic acid is high (58 on soap calc using a combo of stearic acid and butters high in stearic acid) and you are doing a combo of NaOH and KOH can you actually CP the soap successfully? I know I can HP it but it does not give a good texture to the finished product. It comes out really light and airy and I pour into a 3" circular mold that always leaves me with air pockets in the soap when I HP.
I CP'd last night but ended up with oil separation.
Also, since I realize I am sort of making a cream soap without supercreaming the recipe I superfat at 5%. But, if my recipe uses 65% KOH then do I have to just make a cream soap?