First Post / Recipe opinions.

[Tricky]

Hi all... (First time poster... LONG time Visiter )
I've been making M&P for some time now, and I think that I am ready to finally have a go at CP.
So, I found a recipe that I'd like to try... and I'd like to get your opinions of how you all think it will turn out as a soap, and if there are any special things regarding the recipe that I need to know about during the process itself. (Insulating/not insulating, etc.) Or any changes/tweaks that I should make to the recipe before attempting it.
(I tried using Soapcalc... but I haven't learned a lot about it yet, so a lot of the terms are unknown to me.)
Here's the recipe:
Palm Oil: 25oz.
Olive Oil:20oz.
Coconut:15oz.
Castor:10oz.
Shea: 5oz.
H20: 28oz.
Lye: 10oz.

I'm looking a basic, gentle, bubbly, and creamy bar. (I haven't thought about FO or colors yet.)

Thanks for any help!

 

[Dixie]

I don't understand your recipe. But there are some out there that I don't
You need 100% of oils in the soap calc. So this is what I got:

35% Palm
30% Olive
20% Coconut
10% Castor
5% Shea

If you do a 32% water discount:

Water 4.864
Lye 2.125

Yes this recipe will give you a nice bar of soap. Good luck and let us know how it goes

 

[Guest]

Putting your recipe through the Soapmaker program .
I get 25.27 oz water
10.19 oz lye
Please run it through a calculator yourself ( just a dble check)
The soap qualities will be on a scale from 1 to 10
hardness 6.1
Fluffy lather 4.3
Stable lather 6.5
Moisturizing 6.6
I would insulate , if you add 1tbsp of icing sugar ppo to your water before you add your lye (stir it well ), it will up the bubble factor somewhat.

HTH
Kitn

 

[Imblebee]

That's a lot of soap :shock:

 

[xraygrl]

If I were you I'd scale that recipe down to a 2 lb total oils recipe. That way if it doesn't work out so well, not so much ingredients are wasted.

I think I'd back off on the castor a bit and up the olive as well. Mostly it's used at around 4-5%. So with all that being said I'd go with:

11.2 Palm
11.2 Olive
6.4 coconut
1.6 castor
1.6 shea butter

Same basic proportions except the castor and olive. Run it through a lye calc to get your lye and water amts.

 

[ChrissyB]

I would have swapped around the amounts of castor and shea butter. More shea than castor I mean. Too much castor and you run the risk of sticky soft soap. You don't need much castor for it to boost the bubbles.

 

[Tricky]

Thanks for the help everyone!

I found the recipe online somewhere, and I thought that I should run it by
people that know CP before I just tried it.

I ran it through a lye calc, and this is what I got:
Castor: 1oz
CoconutOil: 7oz
OliveOil: 11.2
PalmOil: 11.2
Shea: 1.6
Lye: 4.6
Water: 10.6

Would it make a huge difference in the final product if I traded-out the
Olive Oil for Rice Bran oil?
Again, thanks for the suggestions!
I've done a lot of research on CP, but I'm very "Right-Brained" and horrible with numbers. So, I'm still trying to get all of this down!

 

[Val]

Anytime you change an Oil you should run it thru the soap calc as each one has its own SAP value and you could need more or less lye.

Val

 

[xraygrl]

yes you can use Rice Bran instead of olive, just make sure you run it through the lye calc with the RBO instead of the olive.