Equal Number in Conditioning and Creamy?

[gsc]

I want to make a shea amd cocoa butter CP soap. The recipe I keep playing with comes up with 40% shea butter and I when I run it through the soap calc I come up with an even number for conditioning and creamy. Is this OK?

 

[Susie]

Conditioning is how your skin feels after the bath(sort of), and creamy describes the lather. I am not sure you are going to get any lather with that much shea, but other people know better than I. Butters tend to limit your lather, so you might want to drop that.

Here's a link discussing shea:

http://www.soapmakingforum.com/showthread.php?t=33248

And here is what Soapcalc says about those numbers:

http://www.soapmakingforum.com/showthread.php?t=33248

But, please bear in mind that hardness means hardness at un-molding. Not the long term hardness of the bar.

 

[DeeAnna]

In the spirit of teaching people to fish, may I ask why you are asking this particular question? As Susie pointed out, the two numbers are telling about quite different aspects of soap, so I am wondering about your concern. Can you explain more about your train of thought?