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Last weekend I made a new batch of this shaving soap. After thinking about it a bit I thought I'd follow-up with one last comment on this recipe in case anyone would find this thread someday in search results as they were looking for a good but simple shaving soap recipe. It has been over a...

I suspect you are 100 percent right. It is probably more bluegill here than I realize. Thanks for your help this first year of my "fishing" - it has sure been fun learning how to make my own soap. It is exciting, and in many ways I am still as excitable as a little boy. My wife teases me...

Happy Easter to everyone here. Hope all of you and your loved ones are blessed in every way.

Thanks, that is a great point. I didn't use the entire can. I should have explained that better. The recipe called for a total water weight of 285 grams, so I used that amount of frozen coconut milk. LOL, I love frozen coconut milk and confess that I ate the remaining ice pieces. But you...

I use canned unsweetened coconut milk that is available in our grocery store (A Taste of Thai Coconut Milk, 13.5 fl oz). I freeze it in a shallow pan so that I can easily break it up into pieces as I weigh it. I use two types of lye for my shaving soap. This recipe is 40% NaOH lye. The NaOH...

I don't know about Sles. I have sensitive skin, so I am careful about the ingredients I use for shaving soap. I have read that Sles can be irritating so some (I don't even use coconut oil in my soaps anymore). As far as time required, this is pretty quick to make. I am not an expert on any...

I'm just reporting back on how this recipe turned out I was stunned by how well this recipe turned out. It exceeded my expectations by a long shot. My hope was that this shaving soap would: 1. Be creamy and conditioning rather than drying (no coconut oil). 2. Not have thin overly bubbly...

I am going to make this recipe today and will report back here as to how it goes. If nothing else it may give me a "next step" for getting a personal shaving soap that I like, and with fewer ingredients than my first recipe had. I think with shaving soap in particular, different people like...

I liked my first recipe with 10% castor because it had creamy lather. Not big bubbles, but really creamy. What I didn't like about it was that I had too many soft oils in small amounts (Meadowfoam, avocado, olive... as a newbie I just went crazy putting too many in). I really like shea...

Thank you for the help. I am reading through that thread now. I read that IrishLass uses 20% castor in her shaving soap, and I do like castor in my soap (the shaving recipe I have used until now has it also). I was hoping it would be good in this recipe.

This recipe is for my personal use shaving soap, and my hope is to cut down the number of oils from the recipe I have been using. It would be a hot process using 100% coconut milk instead of water. I have been using the coconut milk with bath soap recipes and I am comfortable trying it with...

I just started shaving with a double-edge razor about 6 months ago. I can definitely relate to your husband, because I was so surprised by how much better it was than the methods I've tried over the past several years or so of shaving. I then tried a shaving soap and liked the "soap and a...

I didn't realize it was derived from palm. I received mine from Bramble Berry. I am new to all of this, so mine probably has palm and I didn't know it. The only reason I was trying to not use the palm was due to reading how there are some environment issues related to the plantations that are...

That webpage is extremely helpful. Thank you very much. I will start over and rethink this, in light of the good feedback I've received. I have enough of the first shaving soap to last me a few months, so there is no hurry. I will start out making a tiny batch and just see if I like it or...

I didn't realize that. Thank you, I did not want that much superfat. I appreciate you letting me know. I really liked the original recipe for the shaving soap, but it had 9 ingredients & now I want to scale it back to fewer oils. I love how the original recipe shaving soap feels so good...

Yes. Sorry about that. I meant 750 grams of oils.

I like this suggestion a lot. Thank you very much.

I am looking for a Shea & Cocoa butter recipe in a bath conditioning soap. This is high in Olive Oil, and I like what stearic acid adds to my shaving soaps, so thought I'd add 10% here in this bath soap recipe. Anyway, does this look like it will be okay? Thanks for helping me with feedback.

This is my next vegan shaving soap recipe I want to try I really did like the first vegan shaving soap recipe but it had too many different oils. That was my first attempt to make soap of any kind. But after that first shaving soap, I made a number of conditioning bath soaps and found what I...

I made this as a hot process soap and I really liked it. I just thought it would be good to try and see if I could do a cold process soap, and since I like this recipe so well I thought I'd just use it for HP and see what happens. I am a bit new to all of this. But so far, all of my vegan...