Dahila
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genny's original recipe is admittedly on the somewhat softer side compared with most of my soaps. But if you allow the bar to cure and dry down and also let the soap dry properly between washings or showers, it will do fine. In my version, the lard increases the initial hardness and the overall insolubility of the soap.
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Zero "cleansing" doesn't mean you won't get clean. It just means the soap does not have any myristic and lauric fatty acids in the recipe.
Soap made from these fatty acids is highly soluble in hard/cold/salt water and is going to be an aggressive cleaner. If you're washing clothes in cold water, you'll probably want to make a soap high in lauric-myristic. Many folks make 100% coconut oil soap for household cleaning and clothes washing. The so-called "cleansing" number is the approximate % of lauric and myristic fatty acids in a recipe.
If you're washing yourself, you will want to design a recipe with just enough myristic-lauric soap to suit your skin -- anywhere from zero to whatever. Dry or sensitive skin needs less -- a lot less -- than oily skin. But even oily skin can be stripped of too much oil, so overdoing the myristic-lauric % can be harsh on even oily, tough skin.
Also, there's a difference between hardness and insolubility ... And a related tradeoff between abundant fluffy lather and moderate creamy lather.
A 100% coconut oil or palm-kernel oil soap is hard, but soluble. It will dissolve quickly and make lots of fluffy lather. The myristic and lauric fatty acids in co and pko are responsible for this.
A 100% lard or tallow or palm soap is hard and insoluble. It will last a long time and make a moderate amount of whipped-cream lather. The palmitic and stearic fatty acids in lard/tallow/palm are responsible for this.
I'm a veggie as well, and boy do I know that about soy. I also have hypothyroidism and there's literature about soy possibly contributing to causing or worsening it due to the similarity to human hormones. I can't help but wonder if the period as a new veggie with consuming too much soy contributed to my hypothyroid! So I've avoided soy most of the time for years now.
I too will not use soya in anything, I get very bad sinus pain/migraines if i consume it, so to me there is something not right about this oil, so do not need it in my soap, could be the GM thing, being a gardener by trade, I do not like gm food production.
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