Cleaning newly purchased supplies

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

For cold process, adding things in at trace has no impact on the superfat at all - you are better off adding all oils in together. It is impossible to selectively superfat cp - the superfat will be a mix of all oils regardless of when they were added.

As for vit e, what is it that you are adding that in for?

As Was said before, for laundry/dishes you want pure co really, and gloves for washing up! For hands, you need to lower the co a lot and up the superfat

 

[Sislea]

Extra protection for DD's hands. She gets severely dry and cracked skin.

 

[Susie]

The benefits of Vit E are not going to survive the lye. Saponification pretty much kills most benefits of certain special oils. And if she washes her hands with a 70% CO soap with no superfat, I can guarantee she will have dry skin. You need the CO to drop to 20% or less.

This is why you need palm oil to be a large portion of your hand soap. It gives the soap enough hardness to be able to cut down on the CO, without having to wait 6 months for a high OO soap to cure.

I would suggest a recipe that looks more like this:

Palm 50%
CO 20%
OO 25%
Castor Oil 5%
Superfat 5-8%

Enter exactly that into SoapCalc and see how the cleansing number drops. This should give her a non-drying soap that she will love using in 6-8 weeks.

I don't know what part of Mississippi you live in(and I am not asking), but if you live near Memphis or Jackson, you should be able to call around and find palm oil somewhere. Even if you have to order some online, it is worth waiting for the right ingredient to make a good soap that will serve the purpose you need it to. I promise your daughter will not be happy with a CO 70% soap. Period.

Here is ED's palm oil link. I have not looked at all the prices, but 1 qt is a good size to try out. Be sure you melt the whole bottle and stir very well before scooping out what you need as the stearic tends to not spread through the whole bottle.(something I avoid by using animal fats)

http://www.essentialdepot.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=SRCH

 

[Sislea]

Thank you Susie, I will just make my laundry bar today and order palm online. I live in the middle of trees, ms. I am actually smack in the middle of Jackson and Hattiesburg. I drove to Jackson Friday and don't plan on leaving my wooded area this week. For me, sometimes ordering online is much more cheaper than the gas it costs me in my truck.

 

[Susie]

Hehe, I lived "in the middle of trees" MS also when I lived there. Matter of fact, I live "in the middle of trees" LA now. And it is 22 miles one way to town. Needless to say, we go to town as little as possible. I can definitely relate.

 

[Sislea]

DH drives to and from Jackson daily for work. But thank goodness he has a company car. I wouldn't want the wear/tear on my person vehicle.

So, how do these numbers look for a bar for DD.

 

[Sislea]

OK DH and I played around in the soap calc and was able to lower the cleansing so it wouldn't be as drying to the skin.

So, what about these figures?

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

To be honest it's also handy to share the recipe itself because the numbers are only half of the story. There might be something in the recipe that means you need to be aware of something, but without the recipe we won't know

 

[Sislea]

I was trying to do that but my images were coming out blurry for some reason even doing a screen capture. Let me try again. It would be nice if I could find a free soap calc for my ipad. The images would be much better than this century old computer.

 

[Susie]

I aim for a cleansing number less than 12. Even a soap with 0 for cleansing will still clean.

 

[Sislea]

Trying to use some ingredients we had around the house. Don't ask why I have babassu oil. Probably something DS #1 picked up in making one of his homemade concoctions.

 

[Sislea]

While playing in soap calc, one of the mixtures gave us an 8 on the cleansing and we were not sure if that should be that low. Some of the other numbers would fall out of the ranges. Some low some high.