I'd venture to say lye does too, thats why if you use expensive fats or oils its best to design a HP soap then after gelled phase add your nice fats & oils for skin lovin properties.
That may matter if using it for eating, but doesn't matter at all for making soap. The benefit of CO in soap is bubbles and its ability to create bubbles even in seawater. Those are not diminished by heating the oil when making soap.
It sounds that you have the long-sought-after proof that microwaves are harmful! These allegations are as old as microwave ovens. Generations of conspiration theorists have failed to show up that connection, and humanity still insists on prospering – Should you finally have got some sound evidence? Credible, peer-reviewed, reproducible, better than “just found somewhere in teh internet”? That'd be a big thing!I seriously hope so! Live cultures = early spoilage, and I'd better want to keep my oils until they deteriorate by themselves, and not be eaten up by some elusive bugs.
I agree with this. For my soap I melt my butters (too hot here to need to melt coconut oil lol) in the microwave but when I'm making lotion bars I melt them in order of "increasing sensitivity" to heat so wax first, then butters, then oils.
