Slow Moving Recipe?

[Nicolesica]

Would anyone care to share a tried and true very slow-moving recipe with me? I made one purely by accident a few months ago, and for the life of me I cannot find my notes anywhere.

This recipe won’t have a FO oil, so no worries there.

 

[AliOop]

You want either a high OO recipe (but not pomace OO) or high lard. Since my skin prefers lard over OO, I would suggest something like this:

60% lard
20% CO
20% soft oil or oils of choice

This soap is high on conditioning and low on cleansing, so a 3% SF is more than enough. Optional but recommended: add some sugar to increase lather, and a chelator of choice to reduce soap scum.

Soap cooler - like 100F or lower. Keep the stickblending to a minimum - just to emulsion. Cure at least 4 weeks, but 6 or 8 will be better.

I have tons of working time when I use this recipe in those conditions. Good luck, and remember to show us how it turns out!

 

[lsg]

Soaping at a lower temp. also helps add to a slow moving trace.

 

[Mobjack Bay]

I use a recipe that’s very similar to what @AliOop posted but with slightly more liquid oils, and with tallow subbed in for half of the lard: 25% tallow, 25% lard, 20% or less coconut oil, and the rest liquid oils of choice. It’s slow even with 5% castor and using 40% lye concentration. If I’m switching liquid oils around, I also try to keep the palmitic + stearic fatty acids at 30% of the recipe, which could mean that I need to increase or decrease the lard and/or tallow a little.

 

[Nicolesica]

I use a recipe that’s very similar to what @AliOop posted but with slightly more liquid oils, and with tallow subbed in for half of the lard: 25% tallow, 25% lard, 20% or less coconut oil, and the rest liquid oils of choice. It’s slow even with 5% castor and using 40% lye concentration. If I’m switching liquid oils around, I also try to keep the palmitic + stearic fatty acids at 30% of the recipe, which could mean that I need to increase or decrease the lard and/or tallow a little.

Can you tell me why you would need to add or decrease the lard or tallow with a higher % ofpalmitic or Stearic? Just curious..

 

[KiwiMoose]

Can you tell me why you would need to add or decrease the lard or tallow with a higher % ofpalmitic or Stearic? Just curious..

Those two numbers combined help with soap longevity.

Have you tried Zany's no-slime castile? That's a slow mover ( because it's high OO). Are you using EOs? Or totally non-fragranced? Some Eos can also cause acceleration.

 

[Mobjack Bay]

Can you tell me why you would need to add or decrease the lard or tallow with a higher % ofpalmitic or Stearic? Just curious..

Ditto what @KiwiMoose said. I still use various base hard fats and also occasionally run out of an oil. For my recipes, I've found that I can keep the hand feel and longevity of the soap somewhat comparable across recipes by controlling the fatty acid profile.

 

[Nicolesica]

Those two numbers combined help with soap longevity.

Have you tried Zany's no-slime castile? That's a slow mover ( because it's high OO). Are you using EOs? Or totally non-fragranced? Some Eos can also cause acceleration.

I have not! I’ll try to find Zanys recipe here. Thank you!

And totally fragrance free. I send soaps once a month to the senior center and they have extremely delicate skin