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Certainly the soap calc makes life easier -- how you would ever use the soap calc to figure out if your soap will turn out when you have a set lye amount and your percentages don't add up to 100 (because you omitted your 5% castor) is beyond me-- to just say the soap will turn out fine is nice...

I have been requested to introduce myself....... Hi, I'm Estee. I'm new to soap making, but I'm not new to math..... I have a strong mathematics and statistics background and have worked as a statistician in the past. To be accurate, I have made 5 batches of soap but have spent a lot of time...

So castor has a SAP value of NaOH = 0.128 Sounds like you were using not only a 5% superfat value -- and 5% castor. So what it really comes down to is : the other 95% of the oils..... and their SAP values. For example Olive oil has a SAP value of 0.135 Solid 76 coconut oil has a sap value...

Think of this as making a cake. If I have a 5lb bag of flour, and only use 2 pounds can I use the remaining 3lbs (or a portion of the 3lbs) to make the next cake..... YES, you certainly can. Now let's say you have a dozen eggs and only use 2... so you have 10 remaining.... can I use some of...