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Are there any recipes that have no animal fats, no palm and no coconut oil?? And also inexpensive.
TIA
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You know, even if you aren't a vegan, the idea of animal fats can be, a tad, creepy to some. I think it's Irish spring, yup, uses tallow. I wonder how many mainstream commercial soap buyers actually realize that lol! I started rendering my own tallow. Go to the local butcher, they give it to me for free (and get the occasional thank you soap). I trim off any meat and yuckies, cut it, and clean it. Again and again. When done it's a hard disc, looks like Crisco a little, smooth as glass on top and white. Not one drop of stink to it. It no longer resembles a fat but rather just another soap making hard oil. Completely changed my perspective on it. I have bought it from soapers choice before, no smell and it's soft enough to come out of bottle at room temperature, and worked well. I still prefer my own though. It's a beauty once it's completely cleaned.Thank you all for the responses.
I just don't feel good about having animals fat. but still Thank you lionprincess00 for giving me the thought. and The Efficacious Gentleman, you are right. I suspect my son is allergic to CO. The itchiness goes worse these couple of days. he scratched and made it bleed. not sure if lowering the CO helps or I need to skip it completely.
I think I won't like castile coz' of its sliminess. Thanks IrishLass, will see if I can get all the oils and try your recipe.
Thanks Susie for reminding, I am not in rush. I can wait.
Intrigued by this recipe and want to try it. I am a bit tired of those Castille bars I have made. (I have 4 batches of them) The oldest one is only 6 months old, so I know it needs more rest, at least a year, but preferably I want to keep them for 2 years. But Castille are generally slimy, and althoug I actually don`t mind that when I shower with them, I always use a scrubcloth thingy. I don`t like that slimy feel when I wash my hands with them (the soapdish I keep my soap testers in, are filled with stones so the water easily drains off the soaps after each use.)The best recipe I have ever used that fits your 'no-palm, no-animal fats, no-coconut' criteria is my tweak of our Genny's shampoo bar recipe, which I actually don't use as a shampoo bar, but a body bar instead. Once I showered with it, I decided right there and then on the spot to give up making Castiles in favor of using this recipe instead. It lathers much better than any of my Castiles ever did, and best yet- it is not slimy. I tweaked it a little to eliminate the soy:
Olive oil 40%
Avocado oil 30%
Shea butter (refined) 10%
Castor oil 10%
High Oleic Safflower Oil 10%
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Don't let those numbers fool you. My bars with this formula are very hard.....even as hard as my tallow/lard formula with a 46% hardness, believe it or not. To give you an idea of how hard- I cannot dent them when I press them real hard.But in SoapCalc this recipe came out 19 in hardness, 9 in bubbly and 28 in creamy. I know numbers aren`t always as they seem when the soap is done, so perhaps this isn`t as soft as it looks like. How durable and hard was this bar, when you made it?
Thank you IrishLass, good to know! As my experience grow and I play with aaaaall sorts of recipes I can possibly come up with, (even though I have found some favourites) it is interesting to notice that in SoapCalc the numbers does not always mean what they seem. But since I consider myself a newb in this it is always good to hear from experienced soapers that numbers can fool you (i.e me)Don't let those numbers fool you. My bars with this formula are very hard.....even as hard as my tallow/lard formula with a 46% hardness, believe it or not. To give you an idea of how hard- I cannot dent them when I press them real hard.
And it lathers wonderfully in spite of there being no coconut oil in there (which totally surprised me and knocked me for a loop). If I hadn't have personally weighed out each oil myself and soaped it myself, but had instead used a bar of it made by a different soaper, I would have highly suspected the other soaper to have put some coconut or other lathering oil in there, seriously. Unlike my Castiles, this one lathers readily in my naked hands without any help from a nylon pouf.
Edited to add: I just wanted to add that I used 5% sugar ppo. in this batch (about 2 tbsp. ppo). And I also used .5% tetrasodium EDTA, because of my hard water.
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The best recipe I have ever used that fits your 'no-palm, no-animal fats, no-coconut' criteria is my tweak of our Genny's shampoo bar recipe, which I actually don't use as a shampoo bar, but a body bar instead. Once I showered with it, I decided right there and then on the spot to give up making Castiles in favor of using this recipe instead.
Olive oil 40%
Avocado oil 30%
Shea butter (refined) 10%
Castor oil 10%
High Oleic Safflower Oil 10%
IrishLass![]()