My daughter has mast cell issues, and it most certainly is not made up. My heart goes out to you! Please let us know if you make soap, and how it works out.
I am sorry if I missed it, I just looked again to see if I did, but what about a salt bar made from coconut oil. I put a small amt of castor oil in mine, but they traditionally are made with all coconut oil, right?I'm going to offer some help because of something I read elsewhere in this forum, but I'm not remotely veg, so I can't offer any help with a recipe. I can sympathize however because I have Lupus, the systemic kind, and I've become slowly intolerant to many foods and chemicals, to the point that I cook and clean separately from the rest of my family. It surely sucks rocks.
What I found was a thread on using potatoes and/or the water from boiling them to replace the CO for bubbles and lather. I know it's probably a minor matter, but those who tried it also said that adding either, the mashed potatoes and/or their water also left a nice feeling on the skin. If I find the thread, I'll come back and post it.
ETA: Here's the thread I was talking about Potato soap update
I hope it helps in some way.
Unfortunately the OP is allergic to coconut.I am sorry if I missed it, I just looked again to see if I did, but what about a salt bar made from coconut oil. I put a small amt of castor oil in mine, but they traditionally are made with all coconut oil, right?
I made soap using 100% butter. Cow’s butter. The stuff you spread on toast.I'm wondering if you can actually make soap using butters and no liquid-at-room-temperature oils, and if so, which would be the best candidates. I will take anything that cleans well enough to deal with germs. Preferably it would lather a little and not completely fall apart, but I really just need this to hit the reset button on all these pseudo-allergies and at that point, I can probably add some rice bran oil.
I have what amounts to an extremely large number of allergies. As far as I can tell, none of them are life-threatening. If it would help to know which oils I've tested and determined that I react to, I can do so, but I'm not including them in this post because the list is absurdly long. The least bad of the oils I react to are refined olive oil and rice bran oil. I have never tried oat oil but oats are pretty safe so I could definitely try that. I have found that I seem to be okay with both shea butter and kokum butter (but not mango butter). If this seems viable, I plan to try some others to test this theory.
I react to every single liquid-at-room-temperature oil I have tried. I react to Mango butter but not shea butter or kokum butter, so I'm thinking I may be able to find a number of these "butter" ingredients I can tolerate. I've also been vegan for the past 10 years so I am really hoping to avoid animal ingredients.
In case anyone is curious, I have been using French green clay to "wash" my hair and it is weirdly effective. So I could make green soap!
I still have some of it and just washed my hands with it -- to see how it performs. Very reluctant to produce any lather at all -- and it has a 100% Aloe Vera gel substitution for water. The lather it produced was very much like cream. Left my hands feeling very nice, but not smelling so pleasant.I made soap using 100% butter. Cow’s butter. The stuff you spread on toast.
It made nice soap — well — except for the natural fragrance. To say that it stinks is to make it sound as if it has a pleasant aroma.
My 100% coconut oil soap lathers like there's no tomorrow. Then, I started using Aloe Vera Gel instead of water and it REALLY lathers.I have made 100% Cocoa Butter soap. I loved the odor it gave off. It didn't bubble or lather much on it's own, but it felt nice on my skin. So yes, you can make soap with only butters.
To create a soap that bubbles and lathers, sugars can be added instead of CO or Babassu or PKO, if those are also undesirable.
Egg can be added to soap to help with lather as well, and that might be another option to consider if one chooses to make an all butters soap.
Instead of using water for the lye solution, liquids that contain sugars can be substituted and will also contribute to bubbles, but one must take care to prevent the lye solution from bubbling up during mixing and spilling over the container. So if any of these are chosen additives to enhance bubbles and lather, be sure to research how to safely add them to the lye solution.
I'm sure that is true, but the OP was asking about making soap with ONLY butters like Cocoa Butter, etc.My 100% coconut oil soap lathers like there's no tomorrow. Then, I started using Aloe Vera Gel instead of water and it REALLY lathers.
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