Hello everyone,
I stumbled across this website looking for information on Soap making.
I do not intend to ever sell soap, or market it, I just want to do a family project, and with that said, I have a budget that will allow me to spend willy nilly without hopes of ever getting my money back out of what I make, just use.
I was researching of various oil properties and their qualities in soap.
I have a list of the ones I liked what they seemed to do, and also have used in the past that I would like to incorporate into some soap.
Oils:
Argan (5% of total oil used)
Shea (12% of total oil used)
Coconut (16% of total oil used)
Castor (5% of total oil used)
Babassu (10% of total oil used)
Evoo (40% of total oil used)
Cocoa Butter (12% of total oil used)
I also would like to possibly make milk soap instead of water soap. However, I wonder if I can use Almond Milk? Or am I limited to animal milk only? If animal milk, I'd probably go with Goat milk, there is a farmers market locally that sells it.
What I want the soap to do:
-Lather and make lots of suds and bubbles
-Be Extremely moisturizing, but also very cleansing
-Not smell bad, but also I don't want any strong scents, I'd prefer if the scent comes from the oils used alone.
-Last quite a while and still be firm
Ideally I'd like to make 36 to 60 bars total.
Will someone with experience please suggest to me an edit of the percentages of oils I listed, and also any substitutions that need to happen, as I do not know if any of the ingredients I listed will interact with anything else, or if they won't go well together or whatnot.
I'd like to have a decent recipe prepared by Sunday so I can go pick up everything and start then. (I'll probably do this 4 times, so my recipe will be 25% of the total yield each time, just in case I fudge it up, I don't fudge up the whole project )
Thank you very much!
Barnabus
I stumbled across this website looking for information on Soap making.
I do not intend to ever sell soap, or market it, I just want to do a family project, and with that said, I have a budget that will allow me to spend willy nilly without hopes of ever getting my money back out of what I make, just use.
I was researching of various oil properties and their qualities in soap.
I have a list of the ones I liked what they seemed to do, and also have used in the past that I would like to incorporate into some soap.
Oils:
Argan (5% of total oil used)
Shea (12% of total oil used)
Coconut (16% of total oil used)
Castor (5% of total oil used)
Babassu (10% of total oil used)
Evoo (40% of total oil used)
Cocoa Butter (12% of total oil used)
I also would like to possibly make milk soap instead of water soap. However, I wonder if I can use Almond Milk? Or am I limited to animal milk only? If animal milk, I'd probably go with Goat milk, there is a farmers market locally that sells it.
What I want the soap to do:
-Lather and make lots of suds and bubbles
-Be Extremely moisturizing, but also very cleansing
-Not smell bad, but also I don't want any strong scents, I'd prefer if the scent comes from the oils used alone.
-Last quite a while and still be firm
Ideally I'd like to make 36 to 60 bars total.
Will someone with experience please suggest to me an edit of the percentages of oils I listed, and also any substitutions that need to happen, as I do not know if any of the ingredients I listed will interact with anything else, or if they won't go well together or whatnot.
I'd like to have a decent recipe prepared by Sunday so I can go pick up everything and start then. (I'll probably do this 4 times, so my recipe will be 25% of the total yield each time, just in case I fudge it up, I don't fudge up the whole project )
Thank you very much!
Barnabus