Avocado Oil

cmzaha · Oct 3, 2014

Dark green Avocado is usually unrefined whereas the light avocado oil is refined. I use refined which has a shelf life of at least a year. I also do not like fighting the color of un-refined. I love 20-25% avocado in my soap

sagehill · Oct 3, 2014

Ah, thank you, cm! Unrefined was the word I was looking for earlier... and all I could come up with was "very dark green." lol

My aging brain frequently refuses to find the words I need, but I often can get around the problem, but not this time... googling "very dark green" doesn't work very well.

I don't think unrefined oils are as popular as they were when I started soaping.

kmarvel · Oct 4, 2014

cmzaha said:
Dark green Avocado is usually unrefined whereas the light avocado oil is refined. I use refined which has a shelf life of at least a year. I also do not like fighting the color of un-refined. I love 20-25% avocado in my soap

cmzaha,

I have refined avocado oil. Hope to make a batch of soap today and tomorrow. 20 - 25% sounds wonderful. Does this replace the OO you use?? Or do you split it and use both avo and the OO?

kmarvel · Oct 4, 2014

sagehill said:
Ah, thank you, cm! Unrefined was the word I was looking for earlier... and all I could come up with was "very dark green." lol

My aging brain frequently refuses to find the words I need, but I often can get around the problem, but not this time... googling "very dark green" doesn't work very well.

I don't think unrefined oils are as popular as they were when I started soaping.

Sagehill,

lol no worries.

By the way, I love your name here.

sagehill · Oct 4, 2014

Ah thanks! Sagehill was my soaping business name before I retired some 12 years ago. Since then, I just soap for fun and experiments, and sell the excess. People keep telling me I should restart the business, but I'm too old and tired to go full-bore again. LOL!

cmzaha · Oct 4, 2014

kmarvel said:
cmzaha,

I have refined avocado oil. Hope to make a batch of soap today and tomorrow. 20 - 25% sounds wonderful. Does this replace the OO you use?? Or do you split it and use both avo and the OO?

I usually replace OO with Avocado. I am not a big fan of high percenatges of OO in my soaps unless making Castile using 100% OO which I age for 10-12 months. LOL, don't particularily like them either, but love Avocado. I do make soaps with OO in the mix since Avocado is not the most cost effective when selling soaps.