anyone have a basic soap recipie

[avilaleidig439]

Anyone mind sharing a basic soap recipie? For a two pound batch consisting of only coconut oil, olive oil , castor oil, lye and water? I also have sweet almond and seasame oil. Thanks a lot, i cnt find much online without extremely ingredients

 

[dryalligator]

You need to buy some books or look online. Without specific amounts, it would be hard to give a recipe. For instance, I did a goat milk recipe that called for 24 oz olive oil, 8 oz palm kernal oil, 8.8 oz of goat milk and 4.38 oz of lye. Beautiful soap, easy to blend and time to get to trace. Slow moving. I think it would be good for swirls. Everything is at room temp in Florida that is 76-78 deg in air conditioning.

 

[Clemmey]

Recipe

Checkout Soap Queen! She has a ton of great recipes... did you search this forum? There are a ton of recipes under the Recipe button, and if you search you will find there are tons of recipes too! It's a great resource!

Good luck!

 

[Hestey]

Soapqueen blog has one with Anne Marie's 3 favorite recipes. Teachsoap.com also has a bunch of recipes!

 

[IrishLass]

Oh my- yes! You can get a wonderful soap with just olive, coconut, castor ( plus lye and water, too :wink: ). I've found many times that simple is better.

You could try something like this:

65% Olive Oil
25% Coconut Oil
10% Castor Oil

It'll turn out to be a really nice, gentle, Castile-type soap, only with much better lather than a pure Castile.

Just enter the percents into SoapCalc for whatever size batch you want to make, and it'll give you the proper amounts of water and lye to use for your batch.


IrishLass