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Thank you! Clearly I have to read your pages again, and go back to basics.

No, you're not confusing. I'm really learning a lot. I apologize for being so dense. I was probably overthinking. Back to what Ali said, if the oil isn't saponified, it survives with its properties intact. To put it simply, if you're doing a single oil soap and you add extra coconut oil, you...

I do not see the superfat as a complete oil that survives saponification. That's not my understanding of this at all: "So the superfat is more likely to be higher in oleic acid, whether that's oleic acid bound up in the original triglycerides (aka the original fat) or contained in diglycerides...

But that doesn't square with this; "You will never know exactly what kinds of fats and fatty acids are present in the superfat, however, due to the "tornado" action of the lye during saponification. " Sounds to me as if DeAnna was saying that the lye breaks down all the oils into their fatty...

What I get from this is the following, and scientists forgive me if I use human terms to describe a chemical process. Lye doesn't care about the name of your oil. It just saponifies fatty acids, not oils. For example: X oil and Y oil contain varying amounts of lauric acid. Lye doesn’t care that...

I was embarrassed to ask this yesterday but I overcame my shame: how does this "harshness" physically play out? It's not harshness like little microbeads. What does it do to the skin that seems "harsh"?

Not sure I want to open up this can of worms but from what you're saying, those 20% superfatted coconut oil bars aren't really as creamy and moisturizing as their proponents say they are....

Thanks! I understand the issue - see my comment yesterday. I'd figure out how many actual grams of fat are in the coconut milk and add that to the oils.

So, superfatting doesn't automatically = creamy! (I need to put that exclamation point.) It simply means "unsaponified fatty acids" and that can have a variety of different properties, among them, "harshness." Well, I'll be.

Superfat has a nice sound (creamy! moisturizing!) that is innately appealing to noobs. But in some other thread, I forget which, I read DeAnna's POV and I said to myself, this makes sense. I haven't made a low SF batch yet but I look forward to.

That does make a difference! I'm trending towards the lower superfat soap. I do not want 8% superfat. My coconut milk product has 12 grams of fat in 80 ml (1/3 cup). Do you simply add those grams into the overall weight of the oils? If I do a batch that's 500 grams of oil, just add 12 grams of...

OK. I'd do it by just decreasing the superfat to 3% - which is what I'm going to do anyway with my next batch. The extra with the coconut milk couldn't possibly push it up that much.

Are you very science-y about it, or do you just reduce the superfat by 1% or 2%?

Do you use it as an additive or as a water sub?

I think people add those things for marketing purposes. I am also interested in making an all coconut bar of soap.

Thanks for answering that question, which occurred to me yesterday as I was buying a can of coconut milk. Why add coconut milk at all? What properties does it give to soap?

I seem to be a rebatch addict. Honestly, I don't mind it. It seems to have such a bad rep; but if you don't like what you did, then I think of it as drawing over an old sketch you weren't happy with, rather than starting on a new piece of paper. Long story short, I rebatched some "chocolate...

I do like freesia & thank you for the suggestion. Since I'm thinking of backing into palm oil (another story for another day) I may order from BB - I like to bunch orders rather than go piecemeal because of shipping. I don't buy a lot. The one thing I know about perfumery is that LotV is...

Thank you Megan!

When I key in any oil into Soap Calc I get a percent. Still confused. Dividing 180/1.403 = 128.3 Again, still confused. Not trying to be difficult. Just confused.