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I thought EOs aren't really 'oils' at all. They don't saponify. If they lose anything it is most likely from being super-heated during the saponification process...at least that's my personal theory :P, but I do know that EO's are made up of a bunch of things like terpenoids and alkaloids, etc...

Thank you for this! I use 7% pine tar along with some salt and colloidal oats and get a great bar. I just don't like doing things without understanding why they work the way they do...lol

Can anyone explain why the Pine Tar is calculated as part of your oil weight in Soap Calc if it does not saponify? I don't know the chemistry well enough to understand why this isn't just added as an additive...

I made a big 24 bar batch of some salt soap and forgot to up my superfat (insert cry face here...lol)