Recent content by Davo51

What a great response and you are 100% correct.... Around 50% will be converted to sodium lactate, and the rest should pretty much remain pure so long as the lactic acid is added pretty much at the final stage.. However, sodium lactate is still considered an effective skin whitening property...

Thanks a bunch, I will follow that exact routine on my next batch and report back. The whitening comes from the lactic acid that I will add at 7% of the total weight of base soap once I have it ready to pour... I hope I am right because there is no product on the market that combines a...

Hey thanks for the suggestions. I have to have at least 10% lauric in there as it is to be a medicated soap so i fiddled with your recipe and come up with this as a possible next try out. But the fatty acids have been hugely reduced from the original recipe. I do have a stick blender, obviously...

I did a look for what is available here within reasonable cost. I got the following. Palm oil Myristic acid lauric acid Castor oil Canola oil Oleic acid (liquid oil form) Rice Bran oil. I can also get plenty of propylene glycol and vegetable glycerine here, I already have them at home i use...

Thank you for the reply. I will go through the soapcalc options and check what is available here. The skin whitening quality comes from the added lactic acid which is a very common ingredient in whitening lotions and creams as an effective exfoliator. I added the lauric acid for cleansing...

Strangely the image has not come up.... OK added it now :) By the way, I did not add the fragrance because of the seizing.

Hi all. I am new to the forum as well as soap making. This is my first post and many of you probably already know from the title the problem I am having. I made my first batch yesterday, and was a bit of an unexpected disaster. I am learning soap because I want to formulate a soap that is...