Anstarx
Well-Known Member
I usually use palm for my soap recipes as it's cheapest oil I can get here but I always use lard if I want to do a very delicate swirl as it traces do slow..
However, I have a friend who can't use anything containing lard. She had tried my other soaps and liked them but she really loves a clam shell swirl soap I made and want to order a batch from me to use as party favors.
I used lard for that batch and found palm to be too fast-moving in my test batches. I've considered using cocoa butter or shea but that would increase the price a lot and they also move fast. I've also considered using soy wax but I think the high temp it needed to melt doesn't fit for intricate swirl, either.
The supplier I usually purchase from recently started offering a kind of soy shortening for soaping and it's cheaper than lard.. I compared its data to soapCalc and found it to be almost the same as the soybean, 27.5% hydrogenated option. Had anyone soaped with this kind of shortening or something similar before? I would like to have some feedback on its tracing speed and overall behavior in soap. I plan to use it at 20-25%.
However, I have a friend who can't use anything containing lard. She had tried my other soaps and liked them but she really loves a clam shell swirl soap I made and want to order a batch from me to use as party favors.
I used lard for that batch and found palm to be too fast-moving in my test batches. I've considered using cocoa butter or shea but that would increase the price a lot and they also move fast. I've also considered using soy wax but I think the high temp it needed to melt doesn't fit for intricate swirl, either.
The supplier I usually purchase from recently started offering a kind of soy shortening for soaping and it's cheaper than lard.. I compared its data to soapCalc and found it to be almost the same as the soybean, 27.5% hydrogenated option. Had anyone soaped with this kind of shortening or something similar before? I would like to have some feedback on its tracing speed and overall behavior in soap. I plan to use it at 20-25%.