Trans fats in soap calculators

[Mobjack Bay]

Does anyone know how the soap calculators handle trans fats?

For example:
C18:0 is steric acid
C18:1 is oleic acid
C18:1, n-9 is elaidic acid, a trans fat (produced during the hydrogenation of soybean oil)

Specifically, I’m wondering if elaidic acid would be included in the oleic acid category.

 

[DeeAnna]

The soap calcs I'm familiar with don't make a distinction between cis and trans isomers. They'd both read as oleic acid to the calcs. I don't think there wouldn't be any measurable difference between the two as far as soap making goes, but that's my opinion, not fact.