Cream liquid hand soap

[LianaM]

Good Morning!

Have you ever made cream liquid hand soap? If so I was hoping maybe you could answer some questions for me and wondering if you have a recipe?

What’s the difference between using the solid and fractioned coconut oil? Which would be best to use?

If I use solid coconut oil do I melt it first or put it in as is? Also will it go solid in when it cools?

Thanks so much!
Liana

 

[LiminalVeil]

@IrishLass has a legendary cream soap recipe somewhere on this forum. But it may prove to be difficult to execute without a strong foundation in LS making. I will try to find the post and link it.
However, I have found that most of my soap pastes will turn into a cream soap if phase two of the process is followed.
About the coconut oils—I have never used fractioned—it’s very liquid at low temps and has a strong smell if I recall —but any combination of the right oils with balanced values will work. I would recommend using a soap calculator and adjusting your oil percentages until you see a projected result that looks good.
About melting the oils—I would definitely melt and combine all your oils before adding the KOH.
What are the other oils? At high percentages, coconut can be really drying to the skin, unless this soap is only intended for cleaning things.

 

[LiminalVeil]

@IrishLass has a legendary cream soap recipe somewhere on this forum. But it may prove to be difficult to execute without a strong foundation in LS making. I will try to find the post and link it.
However, I have found that most of my soap pastes will turn into a cream soap if phase two of the process is followed.
About the coconut oils—I have never used fractioned—it’s very liquid at low temps and has a strong smell if I recall —but any combination of the right oils with balanced values will work. I would recommend using a soap calculator and adjusting your oil percentages until you see a projected result that looks good.
About melting the oils—I would definitely melt and combine all your oils before adding the KOH.
What are the other oils? At high percentages, coconut can be really drying to the skin, unless this soap is only intended for cleaning things.

https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/my-creamy-cocoa-shea-gls-tutorial.57974/page-6

Here’s the thread. This recipe has a lot of moving parts!
Like I said, most paste recipes will turn to varying degrees of cream if all the post-paste steps are followed. Here is some I finished yesterday. It didn’t turn to cream until I superfatted and added fragrance oil—probably because of the very high oleic content.