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Hey, So I have a recipe that I'm trying tonight.. 453.59g CO: 20% OO: 60% Cocoa Butter: 10% Shea Butter: 10% I did the hand calculations @ 5% superfatting... 62.09g lye/151.10g water.. Brambleberry says.. 61.4g lye/149.7g water My guess is more lye/water = less...

Haha now I feel more conflicted! I'm going to go with Recipe One and Recipe Two as I've made them and see what happens.. They may be terrible soaps.. I guess only time will tell.

That's useful information, snappy.. It's good to know which oils to sub with! :)

Thanks Steve.. I've been working on my own little chart to help formulate better (I'm very visual haha).. This is it so far (more oils will be added as I acquire them, or if they intrigue me).

I tried cutting again today and it was A LOT better than the other day.. But still a little crumbly.. So I'm going to try again tomorrow morning.. The soap actually looks ridiculous though.. Because it didn't gel.. LOL! It shall be named "Ugly Soap"

Ah thank you HM. I will put those numbers in my calculator and see what comes up! :)

All right. Thank you for being so helpful! I really appreciate it! I'm racking my brain trying to make a lovely soap recipe since I've failed twice now.. I really want to put thought into what I'm making and I'm too stubbourn to just use a recipe from the internet! :)

Thanks! I've been reformulating to reduce the amount of coconut oil I'm using.. So far.. The two formulas I have with 15% Coconut Oil are as follows: For one pound of soap Recipe 1 Coconut Oil: 15% Castor Oil: 5% Shea Butter: 12% Cocoa Butter: 13% Olive Oil: 45% Babassu Oil: 5%...

Hmm does superfatting at 7% not make up for the potential drying of the coconut oil? I could up it to 8% SF? I read that having coconut oil over 30-35% can be too drying..

Why don't you really like canola oil, Seawolfe? I might add a bit of beeswax to my soap.. But not sure if it needs it now.. I reformulated. New Recipe for one pound (453.59g), 7% Superfatted Coconut Oil: 25% Castor Oil: 5% Shea Butter: 12% Cocoa Butter: 13% Olive Oil: 45% Water/Lye...

Thank you for the replies so far.. I'm going to try and reformulate. Olive: I'm not going for palm free/vegetarian.. Though I would like to keep the animals out of it hahaha. Thank you for the info about the oil %s :) Susie: What does PPO mean? Thanks for letting me know how to get my soap to...

All right.. I made up this recipe for 1 pound (453.59g) Olive Oil: 45% Coconut Oil: 30% Canola Oil: 5% Cocoa Butter: 5% Shea Butter: 10% Apricot Kernel Oil: 5% I did the water/lye calculation with 5% Superfat: 151.1g water/64.18g NaOH The values: Hardness: 39 Cleansing: 20 Conditioning: 56...

lol I wasn't using soap calc.. I was trying to figure it out on my own without knowledge that soap calc existed.. Hahaha! I've found it though and the math I was doing was comparable to soap calc (except soap calc is waaaay more efficient). Thank you! :)

Thank you for all the tips! I'm going to give it another go using soapcalc instead! It's way more detailed and gives the math that I was trying to figure out earlier today. :) One more question though.. So since my soap is soft still.. I can let it cure as a loaf and then cut later on? I'm...

All right, perhaps someone here is a mathematician (or at least more mathy than me!).. I'm trying to figure out the actual value of an oil based on the % in my soap.. For example.. Coconut Oil has the following characteristics: Hardness: 79 Cleansing: 67 Conditioning: 10 Bubbly...

All right.. So! I used a digital scale (in fl. oz.) I did the zap test.. No tingles, no jolt.. Just kinda soapy/sweet Let it sit for 12 hours before trying to cut again (still crumbly) Noticed it is partial gel inside. If I squish it between my fingers.. Well.. It squishes pretty...

Hello, I've made two batches of cp soap now that crumble when I cut them. I followed a ready-made recipe for the first batch and created my own recipe for the second. I'm wondering if anyone can advise me on what to do! If I did something wrong or what.. Here's everything I did (including the...