Change oils in recipe

[LilyC]

Hello everybody!

I'd like to start by saying I'm totally new to soap making. I always wanted to start doing it, but something came always up.

Anyway, now I started to look through the internet, find recipes find out about doing my own… And I found a dead sea mud soap which I would like to make. However, they ask for: palm oil, castor oil, olive pomace oil and coconut oil (of course also sea mud and the other ingredients, but those I wouldn't change). I'm not a big fan of palm oil, and I really wanted to change the oils into others, like vitamin E oil or EVOO or maybe tea tree oil.

However, being new, I don't know whether one can change the oils for his own wishes, or if there are some oils that shouldn't be mixed.

I've searched for an answer, but I couldn't find it anywhere. So, I hoped you could help me?

 

[Genny]

You don't have to use palm. I've never used it and my soaps are great. I don't like Olive pomace oil because whenever I've used it, I've had horrible problems with acceleration.

I use EVOO, coconut oil and castor oil in all my recipes (except my castile) and a couple other oils and butters. Vitamin E is pretty useless in soap, unless you plan on using oils that have short shelf lives, but I'd the Vitamin E to the oils instead.

Tea Tree Oil is an Essential Oil, which is different than the base oils. It brings the scent to the soap and honestly I don't think it's going to smell very good combined with sea mud.

Here's a couple links with information about the properties that each oil brings to soap:

http://summerbeemeadow.com/content/prop ... aking-oils
http://www.naturesgardencandles.com/mas ... apoils.pdf
http://www.colebrothers.com/soap/oils.html

 

[LilyC]

Thank you for all the great tips!

Seriously, this helped a lot