Recent content by samjesse

Many thx. I learn new things every day.

So why use soap when we have surfactant based cleansers?

Dove soap bar.

Hi I used the following to make my liquid soap, 24 oz olive oil pomanc 5 oz potassium hydroxide 15.1 oz of distilled water neutralized with the following mix till Phenolphthalein gave a clear soap. .5 oz citric acid 2 oz distilled water but unlike commercial soap, mine gives...

sorry, what is ppo?

Hi When you mix all the oil then you add the lye solution then the fragrance, doesn't the fragrance oil skew the oil:solution ratio and one should increase the solution above what SoapCalc calls for in order to have a complete saponification? thx

I am confused as I did lots of online reading and found that people use the following terms interchangeably; Water which I take it to mean ONLY water. Water solution which I take it to mean (water + lye). In your post, which of the terms did you mean? Is it 45% reduction in water (water to oil...

Sorry, what do you mean by "full water"?

According to SoapCalc that will give high Bubbly number which will not be good if I were to use the castile soap for a dishwasher receipt later. I will try Olive oil with 2:1 water to NaOH with zero super fat as long as the total wait is no less than 500g as suggested to avoid errors. Or was...

I am trying to make Castile soap "heavy lye for extra cleaning ability" which I will use later for other receipts, what do you recommend in terms of ingredients. Many thx

Olive oil is liquid at room temp. as well. what makes it better than cottonseed oil for castile soap, I just happened to have cottonseed oil in abundance right now. The link provided by lgs says Cottonseed oil will result in softer bar, but SoapCalc gives it a higher number thus harder bar. I...

I read that castile soap can be made from any vegetable oil but maybe this is not correct info, I am trying to make heavy lye castile soap. After using SoapCalc and confirming the hardness of both Olive oil (17) and Cottonseed oils (26) made me think that Cottonseed oil CP will be...

Hi This is my second CP. the first went OK and is not in its 2 week to harden up. I made a new one today 100g Cottonseed oil. 33g water 14g NaOH It took looooong time to show any trace, I manually mixed because it is a small for a Stick Blender. I am making a "heavy Lye" Castile CP for...

Hi I tried 2 mixtures but was not very happy with the results. Ingredient 1: 1 tsp citric acid 4 tsp Super Washing Soda Ingredient 2: 1 Cup Borax 1 Cup Washing Soda 1/4 Cup Epsom Salt Still have stains and not very shiny. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks

Does the SoapCalc take into account the amount of Lye? I don't think so. so the soap ability to clean is higher with more lye however the SoapCalc does not change with changing the lye amount given that every thing else is the same.