steffamarie
Well-Known Member
Old forum, but I have been struggling with this squeaky feeling with boughten soaps and with my own soaps until today. Even my melt and pour soaps leave that squeaky feeling while we use them and while I can more or less get over it, my boyfriend is finding it very difficult to deal with.
I soaped a recipe yesterday that I tweaked from Royalty Soaps' recipe (hers is 30% Olive, 30% Coconut, 30% Palm, 5% Castor, and 5% Sweet Almond, and she lists this in the descriptions of her YT videos). [edit: it's worth noting that her recipe DOES make me feel squeaky.] I don't have palm oil, so I developed my own formula based on hers. 35% Olive, 20% Coconut, 15% Crisco, 10% Rice Bran, 5% Castor, and 5% Shea Butter. I used a SF of 8% since I wanted to balance the effect of the activated charcoal and mixture of bentonite, rhassoul, and kaolin clays I added. I unmolded them this morning and did a lather test today. It lathers beautifully with a moderately fluffy, very creamy lather!! It also did NOT leave me feeling squeaky at all - my hands feel moisturized and soft.
I did use 1/2 tsp ppo of sodium chloride dissolved in some of my water to help with the unmolding process. I think due to the clay and/or soaping at room temp, the recipe traced up on me REALLY fast but I was able to stick blend through it (I think I hit a false trace) and get it plopped into the molds before it got too hard. It was hard enough to unmold about 8 hours later, but I left it overnight just to be safe.
I have STL city water with no water softener. My other 40-50% OO soaps make my skin feel squeaky (though they haven't cured very long). I'm gonna have my bf try out this new recipe after it's cured and hopefully he'll like it like I do!!
I soaped a recipe yesterday that I tweaked from Royalty Soaps' recipe (hers is 30% Olive, 30% Coconut, 30% Palm, 5% Castor, and 5% Sweet Almond, and she lists this in the descriptions of her YT videos). [edit: it's worth noting that her recipe DOES make me feel squeaky.] I don't have palm oil, so I developed my own formula based on hers. 35% Olive, 20% Coconut, 15% Crisco, 10% Rice Bran, 5% Castor, and 5% Shea Butter. I used a SF of 8% since I wanted to balance the effect of the activated charcoal and mixture of bentonite, rhassoul, and kaolin clays I added. I unmolded them this morning and did a lather test today. It lathers beautifully with a moderately fluffy, very creamy lather!! It also did NOT leave me feeling squeaky at all - my hands feel moisturized and soft.
I did use 1/2 tsp ppo of sodium chloride dissolved in some of my water to help with the unmolding process. I think due to the clay and/or soaping at room temp, the recipe traced up on me REALLY fast but I was able to stick blend through it (I think I hit a false trace) and get it plopped into the molds before it got too hard. It was hard enough to unmold about 8 hours later, but I left it overnight just to be safe.
I have STL city water with no water softener. My other 40-50% OO soaps make my skin feel squeaky (though they haven't cured very long). I'm gonna have my bf try out this new recipe after it's cured and hopefully he'll like it like I do!!