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.

 

[tomahtashi]

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 :'(

Good points. What's fake trace?

 

[tomahtashi]

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

Do you have skin sensitivity?

 

[Tammyfarms]

Choice of oils would be my first place to start. I love a high lard or tallow soap. For the below soaps I used 75% lard or tallow, 20% coconut oil and 5% castor. Some people will say that’s too much coconut, you could always use 10% each coconut and another liquid oil. I understand not everyone wants to use animal products so that’s a personal choice.
On my face no I am currently using a triple rice soap I learned about here on SMF and I really like it. Here is the link.
Thread 'Triple rice soap'
https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/triple-rice-soap.73935/
Is it worth the extra work to make it? Maybe? Is it better than the colloidal oat soap I made with the same oils? Maybe?
One caution I do have is if you use fragrance keep it light and make sure it’s something you want to smell until the smell disappears, or don’t use any.

 

[dmcgee5034]

I make a facial soap with a go-to recipe. In What soapy thing thread, you’ll see a version with AC and Tea Tree EO I recently made. I can’t figure out how to link it
I agree with @Tammyfarms, keep your EO/FO light. I use a s,all amount of coconut citrus sorbet from BB in my version with the AC.

 

[dmcgee5034]

I used a classic 75% lard, 20% coconut, 5% castor; with AVJ as the liquid, 1% ea of sorbitol and sodium citrate, 3% GMP, and 1% AC. EO blend of 66% Orange10x and 34% Tea Tree.

This is the best I could figure out to link and show you the facial soap recipe, @tomahtashi

 

[Tammyfarms]

I make a facial soap with a go-to recipe. In What soapy thing thread, you’ll see a version with AC and Tea Tree EO I recently made. I can’t figure out how to link it
I agree with @Tammyfarms, keep your EO/FO light. I use a s,all amount of coconut citrus sorbet from BB in my version with the AC.

I just figured out the linking thing! Well, I think I did…. When looking at the message you want to link, at the top of that message there is a date and/or time the message was sent. To the right is a little triangle with circles on the tips. Click on that and paste it in the message to link.
I see you have already linked the post but maybe this will help for future use.

 

[Tammyfarms]

This is the best I could figure out to link and show you the facial soap recipe, @tomahtashi

Just to clarify, for the EO blend what percent ppo?