Is Red Palm oil same as regular palm oil?

sheilaohga · Jan 3, 2017

I need to buy some Palm oil but I saw some saying Red Palm.
Are these two the same thing?
Can I use Red Palm oil like I would with regular Palm oil?
Thank you!!

lsg · Jan 3, 2017

Yes, you can use the two interchangeably. Soap using red palm oil will be yellow or orange color, depending on the percentage of red palm used.

earlene · Jan 3, 2017

When I made soap with red palm I didn't really like the smell of the red palm, so I would just warn you on that. But the color in the resulting soap is pretty nice.

lenarenee · Jan 3, 2017

The smell is very similar to raw fresh pumpkin. I assume it's the beta carotene.

sheilaohga · Jan 3, 2017

Won't putting in FO or EO cover up the Red Palm's smell?
Is it that strong?

And regarding color, I am going to put Activated Charcoal so the color wouldn't be an issue.. i hope

Thank you.

Arimara · Jan 3, 2017

sheilaohga said:
Won't putting in FO or EO cover up the Red Palm's smell?
Is it that strong?

And regarding color, I am going to put Activated Charcoal so the color wouldn't be an issue.. i hope

Thank you.

As far as the smell goes, go ahead and try if you'd like. I personally would not bother as I would ALWAYS smell that nasty RPO funk. Adding a bit of AC to it might be interesting to see but I will warn you will still get an discoloring lather from soap with RPO

cmzaha · Jan 3, 2017

Depending on your percentage of the Red PO it can stain. I also do not like the smell of it. As for sap you can use it interchangeably but for my recipes requiring 40% palm I would not use Red PO. Besides I like to play with colors and it would be a great game changer for coloring