Face Soap

[tomahtashi]

Hi there,
I make cold processed soap and recently experimented with kaolin clay for the first time.
Implementing this clay got me thinking - what other ingredients would be good to add to a batch that is beneficial as a face soap?
I want to make soap with ingredients that enhance the soap for face use, but I also don't want to make cosmetic claims (as I don't plan to get permit/license for cosmetic use)

TLDR;
What are the best soap ingredients for cold processed face soap?

 

[Relle]

I'd just use your normal recipe you already have, you don't need soap for your face anyway, just use water.

 

[Elise]

Kaolin clay is a good idea already. What I would do myself, is more about the choice of oils. I would use way less coconut oil than in my base recipe so the soap won't be drying. I would also up the butter content. Maybe make it 1 or 2 % more superfatted.

I do think that it is important not to overclean your face, but I still need to use a cleaning agent as I use sunscreen and/or rich face creams. So I just try to use very gentle soap.

I actually want to try making a 100% shea butter face soap, but I fear fake trace :'(

 

[Relle]

I use sunscreen daily, I have to, even to the letterbox, no choice, it washes off with water. I slather it on.

 

[Elise]

I use sunscreen daily, I have to, even to the letterbox, no choice, it washes off with water. I slather it on.

Mine doesn't
I don't mind it that much since I don't wear it every single day, due to living in a way less "sun intense" country than you.

 

[Ekuzo]

I actually want to try making a 100% shea butter face soap, but I fear fake trace :'(

Why the fear? If temp is high enough, it should be fine

 

[Elise]

Why the fear? If temp is high enough, it should be fine

I just never did it and usually don't soap with vety high butter recipes. I also usually soap at near room temp. So I fear things will be moving faster than I'm used to. I will try someday for sure, but it is on the long list of stuff I want to try I don't have a lot of soaping time rigt now, so I tend to go toward easy/without many new parameters recipes atm.