grocery store ingredients

[Jessrof]

Picked up some ingredients that I want to try for my next batch of soap but am wondering if I can use them.

1st one is Lard. Ingredients listed: Lard and hydrogenated lard, BHA, propyl gallate and citric acid to help protect flavor

2nd one is canned coconut milk. Ingredients: Coconut, water, guar gum (a stabilizer)

Will these extra ingredients effect my soap or the SAP values?

 

[Lindy]

Lard is excellent in soap! Canned Coconut Milk is quite nice. Make sure you replace part of your water with it plus if you want to use it for all your water then freeze it into cubes. Makes a lovely soap

Lard is found in your lye calculator as an oil and the Coconut Milk won't affect it enough to worry about...

 

[lizflowers42]

I don't use lard, but I know other people on the forum do and say that grocery store kind if just fine. I have used coconut milk with no problem as well. Some say that guar gum is a no-no, but I didn't have any trouble with it. Just freeze it first, so your lye doesn't burn it!

 

[Lindy]

I've never had any trouble with the Guar Gum in the Coconut Milk....

 

[Jessrof]

Great! Thanks!

 

[Rachelmf]

I use the lard from the grocery store and I think that it works really nicely. The ingredient list is similar to, if not the same as, yours.

 

[CaliChan]

The only ingredients I use are from the health foods store (they sell shea butter, hemp oil
Fresh goats milk etc,) and things I find from the grocery store. I use lard frequently and never have an problems. Same with coconut milk. You should be fine

 

[DeeAnna]

"...Lard is found in your lye calculator as an oil and the Coconut Milk won't affect it enough to worry about..."

Hey, Lindy -- I was looking at my coconut milk today. One can of liquid milk (400 mL, Golden Star brand) has about 80 grams of fat in it; the other can (Imperial Dragon brand) has 45 g. The coconut milk powder I have (Grace brand) would provide about 67 g fat, if I used enough of it to make the same 400 mL volume, if reconstituted per directions.

Depending on whichever product I used, I was going to reduce the coconut oil in the recipe appropriately to account for the coconut fat in the milk. The 80 g product would contribute a bit over 5% of my total fats. That seems like a fair amount of "hidden" superfat if it is not included in the lye calculations. Your thoughts? --DeeAnna

 

[Marilyna]

Love grocery store ingredients. All my fats and lye can be purchased there, with the exception of shea butter.