I found some recipes I like but I want to scale them to fit my mold. how do I do that? I have the dimensions of my mold and can figure it out no problem when the percetages are given but cannot figure out how to do it with just a plain ounces recipe??
How to fit recipes to my mold?
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unmouton
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You have to figure percentages from your recipe. For example:
A recipe you find has the following:
Olive Oil - 25 oz.
Coconut Oil - 10 oz.
Palm Oil - 10 oz.
Shea Butter - 5 oz.
Ignore lye and water amounts, because if you scale this recipe up or down, you will require different amounts of lye and water.
Your total oils are 50 oz. To find your percentages, divide each oil weight by the total weight. So...
Olive oil = 25/50 = .50 = 50%
Coconut oil = 10/50 = .20 = 20%
Palm oil = 10/50 = .20 = 20%
Shea butter = 5/50 = .10 = 10%
Then take these percentages and plug them into soap calc with a new total weight, or do it the old fashioned way:
You want a total of 30 oz for your new recipe, so multiply each oil's percentage by 30 oz.
Olive oil = 50% x 30 oz = 15 oz.
Coconut oil = 20% x 30 oz = 6 oz.
Palm oil = 20% x 30 oz = 6 oz.
Shea butter = 10% x 30 oz = 3 oz.
You can then use these numbers to use a simpler soap calculator like mms.
Sorry if this is all confusing, its hard to explain over the internet!
A recipe you find has the following:
Olive Oil - 25 oz.
Coconut Oil - 10 oz.
Palm Oil - 10 oz.
Shea Butter - 5 oz.
Ignore lye and water amounts, because if you scale this recipe up or down, you will require different amounts of lye and water.
Your total oils are 50 oz. To find your percentages, divide each oil weight by the total weight. So...
Olive oil = 25/50 = .50 = 50%
Coconut oil = 10/50 = .20 = 20%
Palm oil = 10/50 = .20 = 20%
Shea butter = 5/50 = .10 = 10%
Then take these percentages and plug them into soap calc with a new total weight, or do it the old fashioned way:
You want a total of 30 oz for your new recipe, so multiply each oil's percentage by 30 oz.
Olive oil = 50% x 30 oz = 15 oz.
Coconut oil = 20% x 30 oz = 6 oz.
Palm oil = 20% x 30 oz = 6 oz.
Shea butter = 10% x 30 oz = 3 oz.
You can then use these numbers to use a simpler soap calculator like mms.
Sorry if this is all confusing, its hard to explain over the internet!
Asil02
Well-Known Member
Or you can go to this website http://www.summerbeemeadow.com/
Open the lye calculator and enter your recipe. Click the button to calculate the lye and then on the next page scroll down to see the recipe resizer. There you can enter in your dimensions and it will help you resize the recipe to fit.
Good luck!
Open the lye calculator and enter your recipe. Click the button to calculate the lye and then on the next page scroll down to see the recipe resizer. There you can enter in your dimensions and it will help you resize the recipe to fit.
Good luck!
Asil02
Well-Known Member
You're welcome. Glad I could help. 
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