dixiedragon
Well-Known Member
Regarding the superfat being pour clogging - an option for that is to do hot process. You can use the same recipes as cold process.
For example, maybe something like:
5% superfat
20% coconut
20% olive
20% rice bran
30% shea
5% castor
5% avocado
Add everything BUT the avocado. Mix with your lye water. Cook in a crockpot or in a stainless steel pot on the stove. Google "hot process soap" for pics and videos. When the soap goes through what we call "Vaseline stage", it is mostly saponified. THEN add your avocado oil. Stir well, then pour/glop into the mold. That way, the avocado oil will be (mostly) untouched by lye.
I know you want to make a "special" soap - but there's a reason we're urging you to at least try some of our "generic" recipes first. We know that these recipes WORK and they make good soap!
Here's a recipe somebody on the forum recommended (sorry, I didn't write down the forum member)! It's on my list to try:
2% superfat
Castor 5%
Coconut 20%
Shea 50%
Sunflower (high oleic) 25%
This recipe has a low superfat b/c shea butter has a lot of unsaponifiables - things that don't become soap - so the low superfat makes it bubbly.
ETA: Do you make pot roast? Have you noticed that while there are a lot of subtle tweaks and variations, the recipes have certain fundamental similarities? Listening to your recipe ideas is kind of like somebody saying, "I want to make pot roast. But SPECIAL pot roast, not generic pot roast. So I'm going to add spinach, caviar, and foie gras, because these things contain nutrients that I want in my pot roast." There is an excellent reason that pot roast doesn't contain spinach, caviar and foie gras. Because that would be extremely expensive yet gross pot roast.
For example, maybe something like:
5% superfat
20% coconut
20% olive
20% rice bran
30% shea
5% castor
5% avocado
Add everything BUT the avocado. Mix with your lye water. Cook in a crockpot or in a stainless steel pot on the stove. Google "hot process soap" for pics and videos. When the soap goes through what we call "Vaseline stage", it is mostly saponified. THEN add your avocado oil. Stir well, then pour/glop into the mold. That way, the avocado oil will be (mostly) untouched by lye.
I know you want to make a "special" soap - but there's a reason we're urging you to at least try some of our "generic" recipes first. We know that these recipes WORK and they make good soap!
Here's a recipe somebody on the forum recommended (sorry, I didn't write down the forum member)! It's on my list to try:
2% superfat
Castor 5%
Coconut 20%
Shea 50%
Sunflower (high oleic) 25%
This recipe has a low superfat b/c shea butter has a lot of unsaponifiables - things that don't become soap - so the low superfat makes it bubbly.
ETA: Do you make pot roast? Have you noticed that while there are a lot of subtle tweaks and variations, the recipes have certain fundamental similarities? Listening to your recipe ideas is kind of like somebody saying, "I want to make pot roast. But SPECIAL pot roast, not generic pot roast. So I'm going to add spinach, caviar, and foie gras, because these things contain nutrients that I want in my pot roast." There is an excellent reason that pot roast doesn't contain spinach, caviar and foie gras. Because that would be extremely expensive yet gross pot roast.
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