Creamed Coconut

[Guest]

I'm going to attempt a shampoo bar recipe which uses creamed coconut. This is something I've never used before. How should I prepare it? should I melt it with some oils or water?

 

[Guest]

I'm going to attempt a shampoo bar recipe which uses creamed coconut. This is something I've never used before. How should I prepare it? should I melt it with some oils or water?

is creamed coconut the same as coconut milk?

 

[Guest]

I don't think so. It came in a block and it's pretty solid. Any ideas with what to do with it would be super helpful

 

[Guest]

I googled this because I was curious and I don't see anything about a solid coconut cream . Are there any instructions on the label as how to how to use it. What I read said some add at trace and others used it as part of the lye water. ?

 

[Guest]

I looked on the back but it's all foreign and I can't understand any of it. That's what I get for buying from a foreign food shop on ebay.

The recipe I'm going to attempt is featured in a book written by Melinda Cross. The recipe also contains 2 egg yolks which I'm leaving out for a vegan shampoo. I think tomorrow I will try and make a paste out of the coconut stuff using some of the water put asside, mix it about a bit and add it to the mix at a light trace. Unnnnless of course someone has a better idea...

 

[vivcarm]

Is your creamed coconut in a sealed block? If it is you could easliy melt it in a jug of hot water I do that all the time for curries, if it isn't use some of your water allowance and add boiling water to it to make it more milky. Or..... put it in a dish and heat gently in the micro or over a saucepan!
Does any of this help?

 

[artisan soaps]

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[Guest]

Vivcarm, I think I'll be doing the melting in hot water idea for sure.

Artisan soaps, the recipe Is:

28oz Olive oil
2 egg yolks
2oz beeswax
2oz creamed coconut
9 1/2oz distilled water
4oz sodium hydroxide
2tbsp lemon essential oil
1tsp Vitamin E oil

Re-reading the instructions now and it says to add the creamed coconut in with the base oils for melting. hmmm I think either way would work then. I'm still leaving the eggs out and I might add a small amount of castor oil then re-calculate.

 

[vivcarm]

Post pics when finished, the eggs sounds strange to me too, but hey it's a wierd world! I tried to make a shampoo bar, it was far too soft, and it is still sitting in the drying rack over a year and a half later, what does that tell you, you will make a better one than me that's what!

 

[Guest]

I think the recipe worked

This is what I un-moulded yesterday:

They look more yellow in real life. I used all the ingredients minus the eggs and melted the creamed coconut with the base oils. I've used a teensy bit on my hands and it's the softest of softs. The smell? It's OOH LALAh! I can't wait to use it on my hair.

 

[vivcarm]

Looks lovely, glad you are happy with it, might copy that recipe myself! Well done!

 

[ibariaSoap]

Wow! What an awesome scent for the summer! They look great! What did you use instead of the egg yolks?

 

[Guest]

That looks awesome.Way to go .

kitn

 

[Guest]

I do recommend this recipe I wasn't quite sure what the eggs were there for and so I didn't know what to replace them with. I really didn't want scrambled egg shampoo though. The scent is sooo sweeet

 

[artisan soaps]

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[Dixie]

Lovely, have you tried it yet?

 

[xraygrl]

looks great!

 

[Guest]

I forgot to come back and check this post until I came across this today: http://soapmakingforum.com/forum/viewto ... ght=#56819

Seems egg works fine in soap (I know you wanted vegan though), but just for the record

Thanks for the recipe - I'll definitely try it soon as those look great!

So have you tried it on your hair yet?

Thanks for that link!

Im waiting another 3 weeks for it to properly cure. I'll update this thread with results.

 

[Zhuliya]

Hi there,

I know this is a quite old topic, but I have that book too and wanted to try that shampoo recipe. Have you tried it? How is it?
O know egg yolk is very good for the hair, but I am not sure abut this coconut cream thing. I bought it yesterday at an Indian shop, it says on the box that it contains 68% fats, so I suppose you use it as a kind of butter, I mean you use it as part of the fats in the recipe, right? But I wouldn't know how to calculate the lye with it... I'm not quite sure how to do with it, so I'm curious to know what you think of it.


Thanks!

 

[Mrs Capa]

Ahh this is an old post! Not much reply since last year! :mrgreen:

I too have been wondering about creamed coconut. I have just bought some pure organic creamed coconut. I don't like to use other peoples recipes but cross match and learn stuff from them and apply my own bits and bobs.

I understand that if the solid coconut cream block needs water to liquefy it then I'd say use some of the water already included in the recipe calculation.

If the creamed coconut liquefies by heat alone, it's obviously more of a fat and needs to be put with the oils. In the latter case would it be suited to being a superfatting addition if able to be added in a liquid state at trace?

If this was possible or even having the superfatting coconut cream already in the oils before lye addition?

Both methods on superfatting with the creamed coconut would take the guess work and risk from too much lye. Better to be fatter than sorry!

There does seem to be many methods and times of adding this yummy ingredient.

If it's coconut cream/milk it tends to be more liquid solution because of the additives and it is less potent in my opinion. But that's why that stuff gets added to the lye water because of the high water content in the product.

Also creamed coconut is pretty high in sugars! Is this a concern for the saponification process? :shock: