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For those who are making Soleseife salt bars, are you using a high percentage of coconut oil? Thanks

I don't make body butters, but in my opinion the greasiness is coming from the shea, not the jojoba.

Lisa from I Dream in Soap just did a video on jelly soap.

Thanks for your reply @curlycoat2

Thanks for this. If you don't have any coconut oil in your recipe, do you add something for bubbles? I thought coconut is the only oil that will lather when using salt.

Thanks. I've heard the same about sodium lactate (or the use of salt instead of it).

Vinegar helps with hardness? 😯

I finely ground Himalayan salt in a coffee grinder and then sifted it. It didn't scratch my very sensitive skin.

Yes, thank you!

Do you mean 100% tallow or lard soap? Thanks

I've made this recipe and it's lovely. She uses 50% coconut oil and 12% SF with 10% salt. I've also made the one that Lisa from I Dream in Soap shared, using 60% coconut oil and 15% SF with 40% salt, and it was nice as well. I'm wondering how much less coconut oil and superfat I could use...

Thanks very much DeeAnna, I tried to search your wonderful website for it but couldn't see how. All I found was how to search for a product to buy. Edited to add: I figured it out. Thanks very much for all the help you provide to the rest of us. For anyone else who doesn't know...

When calculating the amount of SG to use, is it a percentage of the oil weight or the batch weight? Thanks in advance.

It expired in November 2023. I kept it in the freezer the whole time. Would you use it in soap? Thanks

I'd like to try this. I don't know if what I have is technically tallow because I just cleaned the fat I poured off of ground beef. Do you add something for the lather? Thanks

Exactly - such helpful people sharing their valuable knowledge!

I don't remember for sure, but it probably was from someone's post in a Facebook group.

Thanks @Isg for the links and @DeeAnna for the detailed reply.

So, I've been wondering if there's some way to find out the percent of unsaponifiables for each oil. Someone on Facebook said to look at the Soapcalc fatty acid values. This is for HO Sunflower Oil. The fatty acids add up to 95 - does that mean that there are 5% unsaponifiables in HO Sunflower...

No need to apologize. The more details the better. Thanks.