Favorite Base Oil / Oil Blends

[Kcryss]

Look for Golden Wax 415 - it has no additives. You can buy it online I believe. It's American.

Any idea how to identify if it is 100% hydrogenated or 27.5? Soapcalc has both and I've looked at candlewic's website and the product on Amazon, but can't seem to find the info.

https://www.candlewic.com/store/pro...n-Wax-415-Soy-Blend-Wax-for-Container-Candles
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OV41RIK/ref=crt_ewc_img_dp_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3HAF281HTAZM2

 

[Dawni]

In my recipes, shea, coconut and RBO are the constants... Everything else is changeable lol

In combination with those, my selling soaps for example, have (any or all) cocoa butter, mango butter, canola, lard, castor, sweet almond, avocado.

All the butters are splurges with cocoa being the cheapest here. Among the fats everything except the almond and avocado are cheap enough, although those two are nowhere near the cost of the butters.

 

[CatahoulaBubble]

My go to recipe that is just about every soap I make has the following:

Olive Oil
Coconut Oil
Palm Oil
Palm Kernel Flakes
Avocado Oil
Shea Butter
Castor Oil

Now sometimes I will switch out or add oils like Coco Butter, Sunflower Oil, and Apricot Kernel Oil but for the most part I stick with my core oils. A. It makes labeling my soap easier and B. I just love the soap. From the hardness to the lather to the way it leaves my skin. I've taken over 10 years to test recipes and my human guinea pigs all felt that this was the best soap out of the different batches. I have some customers order a year's supply of soap from me because they like it so much. I tweak the percentages I use depending on what I want my soap to come out like but these oils really produce the acids that I want to see in my soap.

 

[TheGecko]

Try to find cocoa butter in chunks or bulk -- it's impossible to get out of a tub or container.

I've only ever seen it in chunks, wafers or pastilles, and have used all three. Without question, pastilles are the easiest to melt, but chunks are the most cost effective. I think if I were to buy it in a 'tub', I would warm the tub in hot water, turn it out on my cutting board and then take a cleaver to it...which is what I used to do with I was buying it in chunks by the pound, then I would put it in plastic shoe box size container I got from the Dollar Store. But then I started buying it in 5lb lots because I also make Lotion Bars with it and so now I shred it with my vintage Salad Master.