Alternative for vegetable fat (shortening)?

[scrummysuds]

A recipe I have for baby soap has vegetable fat (shortening) in the recipe but mms lye calculator does not have it as an option, what would be a suitable alternative? I was thinking olive oil?
The other ingredients are:
- carrot seed oil
- sunflower oil
- calendula infused sweet almond oil
- coconut oil
- white beeswax

if that helps at all.....

 

[MissMori]

Try another calculator. 8)

If you want to substitute something else for the vegetable shortening, try palm or pko.

 

[carebear]

Not Olive.

Soapcalc.net has vegetable shortening.

 

[jennikate]

Yeah thats the one thing I wish they would add. I confess if i am using say 15 grams I will put 10 grams first oil on ingredient list and 5 grams of 2nd and use that in MMS its not perfect but gets me close enough to avoid Being LYE heavy.

 

[LauraHoosier]

Having a similar problem with finding vegetable shortening or soybean shortening on the soapcalc.net list. Is it listed under a different name like the "soybean 27.5 hydrogenated"?

I feel silly asking but the only dumb question is the one not asked

 

[jadiebugs1]

Isn't vegetable shortening Crisco?? It's palm and soy. So why wouldn't you use that?

I'm confused. :wink:

 

[LauraHoosier]

You can but I found 100% pure with no additives soybean shortening at SoapersChoice.com I'd like to try but I wanted to make sure I calc for the right thing before I buy.

Also, I can't calc if its not listed on the list of oils/fats on the calc sites so I wanted to make sure I'm not just overlooking 100% soybean shortening on the list because I don't recognize the name its listed under.

 

[jadiebugs1]

oooh....ok! I get it now. So your shortening doesn't contain any palm and therefore would require a different amount of lye....

 

[LauraHoosier]

Yups

 

[jadiebugs1]

There is an option listed on SoapCalc as Soybean Oil, 27.5% hydrogenated. Don't know if that helps.

ETA: I see now you already saw that, lol.

 

[LauraHoosier]

Well I guess I finally entered my question right on the Google searches because this came up in answer to the hydrogenated soybean listing on soapcalc.net:

Looking at soapcalc if you were to use it in a recipe you would look for "soybean 27.5% Hydrog" on the list of oils.

Thank you to anyone that took the time to read this and check.