enough for face soap?
also, is glycerin good for skin?
Is there a sub for goats milk? Oat milk?
Glycerin*, Coconut Oil*, Goat Milk*, Shea Butter*, Olive Oil*, Calendula*, Chamomile*, Lavender* Sodium Lactate (liquid salt)
*ORGANIC
Lye soap made at home is going to have glycerin in it, unless you salt it out after you make the soap, so you don't really need to add more. But if you want to add some, only add a little bit, because it will soften the soap.
As for the oils, it really depends on the formula, the percentages of the particular oils, the superfat (high or low or the default 5%) how gentle it will be. AND it despends on your personal facial skin. What works for one person may be intolerable for another.
Lye soap made with a high percentage of Coconut Oil is far to harsh for the face, IMO. Perhaps others can handle it on their face, but even my body doesn't like a high CO soap. Some people cannot tolerate Olive Oil, although others love it and find it extremely mild to the skin. Shea butter is popular, but some people like it more than others, and again, percentage of use in the formula matters.
Sodium Lactate is added to soap to help harden it and get it out of the mold faster, and it doesn't really impact the performance of the soap on the skin.
As for calendula and chamomile, they are supposedly soothing, but I have no personal experience to verify that to be true. In fact, my experiences with chamomile flowers added to soap was that it was very scratchy. As a tea, where only the liquid was used in the soap, I noticed no real impact on my skin. I have never used a soap with calendula. Lavendar as a fragrance I like, but in a wash-off product like soap, it does nothing for the skin, in my experience. And some people hate lavendar, get headaches from it, and some are allergic, so there is that to consider as well.
I almost forgot Goats Milk. Many people find it very desirable in soap; others feel no difference between any of the milks versus non-milk soaps with the very same recipe. So it depends on the person. I have not heard of anyone having adverse reactions of GM in soap, so I don't think that would be a concern.
