Can i use pure fatty acid for making soap?

[didadi]

Hi, i'm newbie here. I wonder if we can use pure fatty acid such as lauric,myristic, palmitic,stearic,etc to make soap? Have anyone tried this and what is the outcome? Pls help to shed me some light. Thank you so much^^

 

[DeeAnna]

Yes, you can. Fatty acids saponify very, very quickly, so a hot process method works best if you are a handcrafted soap maker. If you're working on a larger commercial scale, a boiled process is best. A cold process method is usually impractical.

Some shaving soaps and many cream soaps are made with part fats and part stearic acid. I don't know of any handcrafted soap makers using ALL fatty acids for their soaps -- that's not to say that no one is doing it, just that I haven't heard of anyone doing this.

If made with all fatty acids, the finished soap will have no glycerin and no unsaponifiable components in it, which makes it more like a commercially produced soap and unlike a typical handcrafted soap.

Now that I've shared my thoughts, why does this idea appeal to you?

 

[boyago]

Yes, you can.

Now that I've shared my thoughts, why does this idea appeal to you?

I thought of doing this as an experiment, like taking the single oil soap demo a step beyond. Wasn't sure where I would get all the FAs though. I checked around and could only find stearic and oleic. The when searching for the others I could only find HUGE suppliers selling in big time bulk. You know any hook-ups?

 

[DeeAnna]

No, I don't, Boyago. I might try some suppliers that cater to people who make lotions ... lotioncrafter, ingridients to die for, the herbarie, etc. Not sure about that, but it's the direction I would head first.

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[DeeAnna]

An anionic surfactant in a cationic soap -- can you explain your reasoning about why would you want to use that?