How do you make a nice white soap

[foresthome]

All of my uncolored soap is either a pale yellow, pale green, pale orange, or tan. How do you make a nice white bar? Can it be done without using lard?

 

[Dennis]

How about just adding titanium dioxide? I use about 1 tsp ppo, roughly. More and I might have bright white. I'm going to try that today.

 

[foresthome]

good luck

Let me know how it works.

 

[Dennis]

It's in the oven now.

 

[Deda]

I make unscented soap that's a nice white.

I don't use anything but olive, palm, coconut and cocoa butter.

 

[Dennis]

I used olive, palm, coconut, and babassu. Don't know what it would have done without the TD. Hmm, maybe another batch today. It all goes toward the learning journey for me.

EDIT: and castor. forgot to mention castor.

 

[Relle]

I'm using olive, palm, coconut, castor, rice bran and putting in td at 1 teas PPO and still only getting a cream soap, not white. It might be the rice bran, might sub that for more of another.
Relle.

 

[AmyW]

The whitest soap I have so far and by far, and it's white, not a light cream, is my 100% olive oil bars.

 

[Dennis]

The whitest soap I have so far and by far, and it's white, not a light cream, is my 100% olive oil bars.

How did you do that?

 

[BakingNana]

The whitest soap I have so far and by far, and it's white, not a light cream, is my 100% olive oil bars.

Ditto that, but have to use the "pure" grade to get the white-white. Other grades, EVOO, Pomace, etc..tone the white down in my experience. Personally, I'd rather use other oils with the OO to get a better soap, and TD if I want white-white.

 

[Dennis]

I don't just want a shade of white, but rather WHITE!!. 8) Oh, that's bright.

 

[BakingNana]

I don't just want a shade of white, but rather WHITE!!. 8) Oh, that's bright.

TD is probably your only option for that.

 

[snugasabugxxx]

All of my uncolored soap is either a pale yellow, pale green, pale orange, or tan. How do you make a nice white bar? Can it be done without using lard?[/quote

I made some white soap today.

80% coconut oil and 20% olive oil

soften the coconut oil in amicrowave. Beat with electric whisk until thick like creamm. Carry on beating while you gradually add the olive oil.

then add COLD lye solution and keep beating (wear googles - this may splash

Then beat in your scent.

This makes beautifully white soap and apparently it will float ( I have yet to find out)

I understand also that if you use 100% coconut oil it will be thick enough to pipe in shapes onto baking trays

Because this is made with cold oil and lye, it will take longer to saponify so allow for this when curing

 

[tomara]

100 percent Coconut Oil Soap , 20 percent SF. Wonderful White Soap for me.

 

[AmyW]

The whitest soap I have so far and by far, and it's white, not a light cream, is my 100% olive oil bars.

How did you do that?

Just used the Costco olive oil (not EVOO or pomace), lye and water. It's been about 7 weeks and it's pretty darn white. I was surprised.

 

[foresthome]

SF ??????

It is my husband"s birthday today and I am reading this after 3 bloody marys and 2 glasses of merlot, but Tamara, what is SF? I am drawing a blank right now. Oh I wonder why.

 

[foresthome]

SF

I get it your Coconut soap was 20% superfatted, whoa. I am going to try some of these suggestions. I ordered TD today. Thanks so much. This forum is a lifesaver, well at least a soapsaver.

 

[newbie]

I second what Amy W said. I use Costco's OO and it makes VERY white soap, even with 90% OO and 10% castor, vs 100% OO. Also, 100% lard soap is very very white, but not great on lather. I bet a CO and lard soap would also be very white. And as others have said, 100% CO makes for a very white bar. TD makes for a less translucent look than just oils and no colorant. Depends on what look you want.

 

[Jerry S]

white soap

I don’t know how you all do it. I mean use OO to get really white soap. I use OO from Costco as well and most of recipes are about 50% give or take OO. The rest of the oils are PO, CO and Castor…It’s very hard for me to get really nice white soap. It always has a slight tint to it.
The only time I ever get pure white soap is if I use almost all lard with some CO thrown in…the I get pretty white soap. Maybe it’s the scent I use that gives it the tint …The FO’s must have vanilian or vanilla it. I have given up and now I color most of my soap and then I don't worry about the white except if I do swirls with white....
Jerry S

 

[AmyW]

Try a batch without any scent Jerry and see what you come up with My 2 truly white soaps (the OO mentioned before, and my CO salt bars, which are 85% CO and 2 other oils, the soap itself is actually whiter than the salt inside) have no scent.