100% olive oil

[dobaym]

HI all,
I make goat milk soap.
Can I make long lasting, hard soap out of only extra virgin olive oil, and maybe beeswax.
How does extra virgin, virgin, class A, B, pomace quality difference change the hardness of the soap.

Thanks for all the answers beforehand!

 

[SimplyE]

HI all,
I make goat milk soap.
Can I make long lasting, hard soap out of only extra virgin olive oil, and maybe beeswax.
How does extra virgin, virgin, class A, B, pomace quality difference change the hardness of the soap.

Thanks for all the answers beforehand!

For a 100% Olive Oil soap, you do not need beeswax. A castille soap (100% OO) is an extremely hard bar in time. It just takes longer to get that way. Extra virgin tends to make it greener. I just use the cheap stuff that you can get at Costco. I have not used pomace before, though some people do use it.

Some people add beeswax to soap, but it seems the majority of people do not. It tends to diminish bubbles.

HTH :wink:

 

[dagmar88]

As SimplyE said. Never tried pomace, but olive oil, no mather what grade, gives a very hard bar. 100% olive oil soap does have a bit of a slimy feel to it.
I use 5% less water, 33% in stead of 38; so the soap doesn't need as much time to harden up.

 

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[dobaym]

Thank you all for the replies!
Somehow the soap we get from pure olive oil isn't as hard as I would like it to be.
I use soapcalc.com's lye calculator, to calculate the amount of lye, and freeze the amount of milk calculated as water, adding no water.
Is it possible that the frozen milk weakens the whole process, meaning it doesn't let the lye do its job right.
The max temp. we got, was 27 celsius.
Even after 10weeks, the soap tends to desolve very quickly.
Do you have any sujestions?

 

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[Cambray]

When I make a milk soap I always add more milk than I would if it were water. For example, if the recipe calls for 20oz water, I use about 26oz milk. I also freeze the milk but let the lye/milk mixture get to about 34 celcius. The soap has turned out nice and hard, even when I add honey and the lather is good, not slimy.

 

[SudsyKat]

I don't know how helpful this will be to you, but I've heard many people say that castille soaps need to cure for at least 3 months that 6 months or even a year will make them superb and very hard. 10 weeks may have been premature.