Hello everyone. I will be making liquid soap soon and I was wondering if someone could clarify something. I have Catherine Failor's Making Liquid Soaps book. In the book, she specifies that all her recipes have a lye excess to make it clear and then you have to neutralize the soap with borax...
I have been working with oils and numbers on the soap calc and I have some ideas but I wanted opinions, suggestions and inspiration from others that have made harder bars. The soap calc doesn't give me that.
It doesn't matter what I have on hand because if someone is nice enough to post a...
I'm looking for more inspriation on a soap recipe. I would like to make a harder bar. Like 41 - 48 on the hardness scale but I don't want it to be too cleansing because I have dry skin. Does anyone have a favorite recipe they would like to share?
Thanks!
Well, I'm still a newbie. I've only made two batches of CP. I'm just now learning about superfatting. Is there supposed to be a minimum? I used the Soap Calc 9 that is so popular to figure my recipe. How exactly do you super fat a recipe?
Thanks for the all the useful info everyone!! I don't know if I'll want to use the tetrasodium in my soap but I'll look into it. I went back to the soap I made that I was unhappy with because it's been cureing for almost 2 months now. I used it after a couple weeks and it gave me that waxy...
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I can't for the life of me find my recipe but from memory, it was something very similar to this:
Coconut oil: 30%
jojoba oil: 3%
olive oil: 60%
shea butter: 7%
This company has lots of info on liquid soap. I plan on using them when I go to make some.
http://www.snowdriftfarm.com/
They have potassium hydroxide here:
http://www.snowdriftfarm.com/dry.html
And here is the how to on liquid soap:
http://www.snowdriftfarm.com/form_liquidsoap.html
Okay, so I usually would buy Dove soap if I buy store soap. Even the bars of their soap are great. The reason is because when I use their soap, there isn't a "waxy" feeling left on my skin after I use it. I have dry skin and very hard water. Dove liquid shower soap and bar soap all lathers good...