The 4 Cs CP Soap

[Dottie Mae]

Good afternoon; my question: what's your thoughts on Cocoa Butter, Castor Oil, Coconut Oil and Conola oil CP Soap

here is the recipe I would like to use:

Hardness	29 - 54​	42​
Cleansing	12 - 22​	23​
Conditioning	44 - 69​	53​
Bubbly	14 - 46​	37​
Creamy	16 - 48​	32​
Iodine	41 - 70​	57​
INS	136 - 165​	153​

1​		Coconut Oil, 76 deg​	35.00	1.750	28.00	793.79
2​		Canola Oil​	30.00	1.500	24.00	680.39
3​		Castor Oil​	15.00	0.750	12.00	340.19
4​		Cocoa Butter​	20.00	1.000	16.00	453.59
​		Totals	100.00	5.000	80.00	2,267.96

 

[Steve85569]

Just me.
I'm old so it's a bit too cleansing for me.
It should make a nice soap though. Pictures or it never happened. We like pictures of soap here.

 

[AliOop]

That much CO would be way too cleansing for my old skin, too, and that much castor would make a rubbery, sticky bar for me.

Sticking with those four oils, here's how I would change it up:

Cocoa butter 40
Canola 35
CO 20
Castor 5

Then add some cane sugar (keeping it with the C theme) at 1 tablespoon PPO to boost the lather. It won't show on the soap calc, but you will get nice bubbles from it. EDIT: Or you could add coconut cream.

 

[CreativeWeirdo]

Do you have a Superfat/Lye Discount? What if you did the same recipe with 20-35% lye dscount?

 

[AliOop]

That's an interesting thought to counter the harshness of high CO with a higher SF. I've never tried anything more than 20%SF and only with a 100% CO soap. Otherwise all that SF is a lather-killer and soap-scum-creator for me. Also, with all that canola in there, DOS becomes a greater risk with higher SF, too. So for the recipe I suggested, I'd probably stick with 2-3% SF. It's got plenty of conditioning and shouldn't be drying at all.

Coincidentally, Holly's Soapmaking YT channel recently featured a high cocoa-butter soap that turned out nicely for her.

 

[Dottie Mae]

That would be way too much cleansing (CO) for my old skin, too, and that much castor would make a rubbery, sticky bar for me.

Sticking with those four oils, here's how I would change it up:

Cocoa butter 40
Canola 35
CO 20
Castor 5

Then add some cane sugar (keeping it with the C theme) at 1 tablespoon PPO to boost the lather. It won't show on the soap calc, but you will get nice bubbles from it. EDIT: Or you could add coconut cream.

Thanks so much for your input! I think I will try this, and I will definitely add pics...thanks again!

Just me.
I'm old so it's a bit too cleansing for me.
It should make a nice soap though. Pictures or it never happened. We like pictures of soap here.

I Will reduce the coconut oil and the castor and see how it turns out...thanks!

 

[Zing]

I'm here to major ditto @AliOop , you'll love it. Maybe some cocoa powder for color?

 

[TheGecko]

Too much Coconut and Castor for me. But if you are happy with the soap, that's all that matters.