Single Oil Soap Experiment:Phase One

AlchemyandAshes · Mar 4, 2013

FINALLY! I finally posted my results to my blog for the Single Oil Soap Experiment. There's no way I could have posted it all here...too many pictures and too long of a post!

So here it is:
http://alchemyandashes.blogspot.com/2013/03/single-oil-soap-experiment-phase-one.html

Let me know what you think!

DWinMadison · Mar 4, 2013

Incredibly useful. Thank you for taking your time to do this. Even your "yellow" soaps are whiter than mine. what's up with that? Am i Not tracing far enough?

Genny · Mar 4, 2013

Awesome

I'm really enjoying watching this experiment. I posted about it, with your link, on my FB page

Moonshea Botanicals · Mar 4, 2013

thanks for the research!

AlchemyandAshes · Mar 4, 2013

DWinMadison said:
Incredibly useful. Thank you for taking your time to do this. Even your "yellow" soaps are whiter than mine. what's up with that? Am i Not tracing far enough?

I doubt tracing has anything to do with the color. Different suppliers, different harvests, different manufacturers all make a difference in the oil you get. Maybe scope out the pictures and reference your own formula to see the differences..maybe you can swap out one of the more yellow oils for a lighter/whiter oil?

Most of my oils for this experiment came from Wholesale Supplies Plus, with the exception of Tallow (as well as my lye from Essential Depot), Lard (Armour brand from Wal-Mart), Olive (Daily Chef from Sam's Club), Canola & Corn (CWV from WalMart), and Peanut (LouAna from Walmart).

AlchemyandAshes · Mar 4, 2013

Genny said:
Awesome I'm really enjoying watching this experiment. I posted about it, with your link, on my FB page

Thanks, Genny!
I tweeted the link with #soapmakingforum in case anyone has a Twitter account

@AlchemyandAshes

Badger · Mar 4, 2013

Thank you for posting this. This was some really useful information and a lot of food for thought!

Koshka · Mar 4, 2013

This is amazing! Thank you for taking your time and doing this experiment! Can't wait for phase deux.

TeriDk · Mar 4, 2013

Excellent job! So...at this point do you see any changes to your formulas or are you holding out for phase II results?

houseofwool · Mar 4, 2013

Thank you for doing this Shawnee!

AlchemyandAshes · Mar 4, 2013

TeriDk said:
Excellent job! So...at this point do you see any changes to your formulas or are you holding out for phase II results?

I'm holding out for the results farther down the road. I was really surprised with Corn and Peanut's lathering capabilities...but I'm concerned with rancidity and longevity at the moment. I've actually never had DOS on a bar I've made, but I have seen and received rancid soap (Thanks to my aunt...don't tell her I told you! :silent

and I would prefer to avoid that, of course. My current formula for most of my soaps is Olive/Coconut/Castor/Palm, some with Pumpkin Seed Oil or Cocoa Butter (or Shea) added. I'm pretty happy with the results that I get now, but have considered dropping Palm, and after this experiment, I'm considering it even more...possibly upping the Coconut (and superfat %) a little and adding a butter in its place. Also, I may swap out some Olive Oil for Avocado and/or Rice Bran in some of my formulas. I've used both before, but could not have attributed certain qualities to them as they were part of a formula, and not a single oil soap.

Mommysoaper · Mar 4, 2013

Amazing experiment! Thanks for all of the hard work and sharing it!

melstan775 · Mar 5, 2013

Thanks a bunch for doing this Shawnee! Seems like a lot of work, hope you are enjoying it!

dianne70 · Mar 5, 2013

excellent work......thankyou for doing this, it is very informative and really does give me some food for thought regarding my current soap formulas

TeriDk · Mar 5, 2013

AlchemyandAshes said:
I'm holding out for the results farther down the road. I was really surprised with Corn and Peanut's lathering capabilities...but I'm concerned with rancidity and longevity at the moment. I've actually never had DOS on a bar I've made, but I have seen and received rancid soap (Thanks to my aunt...don't tell her I told you! :silent and I would prefer to avoid that, of course. My current formula for most of my soaps is Olive/Coconut/Castor/Palm, some with Pumpkin Seed Oil or Cocoa Butter (or Shea) added. I'm pretty happy with the results that I get now, but have considered dropping Palm, and after this experiment, I'm considering it even more...possibly upping the Coconut (and superfat %) a little and adding a butter in its place. Also, I may swap out some Olive Oil for Avocado and/or Rice Bran in some of my formulas. I've used both before, but could not have attributed certain qualities to them as they were part of a formula, and not a single oil soap.

I used avocado oil in a designed rebatch and there appeared to be some small DOS spots but wasn't sure. The oil was about 9 months old at the time. Haven't used it since. No matter though the French Lavender hand milled soap came out looking a lot like Spam...yuck.

Cherry Bomb · Mar 5, 2013

Great job A&A! This is very interesting and your blog was very informational! Neat experiment

scrubbie · Mar 5, 2013

AMAZING! Best resource!

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