How to increase soap lather?

[AliOop]

I’ve never used liquid, but I do dissolve the powdered sorbitol in some of the batch water (I warm it up a bit). I think @AliOop has said she dissolves it in the batch liquid before adding the lye. FWIW, it dissolves easily so if there is a big difference, I’d use the powder.

I agree with Dibbles, the powder dissolves so easily and is so much less expensive. I either include mine in my lye masterbatch, or dissolve it in a little extra batch water.

 

[KiwiMoose]

Actually, we're probably all correct!

Simple solve... check the ingredients list lol

Companies love to play, or dare I suggest, mislead, with wording. lol

Here in Canada, "powdered sugar" would be classed as "single ingredient product". Strict laws here. "icing" would allow for something other than "sugar". I've heard it's different in the US.

That info is years old however. And I'm not a lawyer.

In New Zealand the only type of sugar we can get in powdered form is call Icing Sugar. We don't have confectioners sugar nor powdered sugar available by those names. Icing sugar contains 97% cane sugar and 3% Tapioca Starch

 

[squidstings]

In New Zealand the only type of sugar we can get in powdered form is call Icing Sugar. We don't have confectioners sugar nor powdered sugar available by those names. Icing sugar contains 97% cane sugar and 3% Tapioca Starch

Cane sugar and corn starch here.

I wonder how different recipes would end up. I know some people make their Lye soap with UN-filtered tap water and all the unknown additives that contains. Imagine me saying use "icing sugar" instead of "cane" sugar and your commercial batch fails because of the tapioca starch. I feel for some of you fighting that battle. I recently had to switch to an RO system because my regular "distilled" supply, wasn't. Higher TDS ppm than my tap. At least I'm only making my own supply.

All the best

 

[Zing]

 

[CLMP]

So my sorbitol just came in and I want to use it. I still feel a little confused about how to use it. How much should I use per pound and I need to dissolve it in my lye water before adding lye or do I dissolve it in a little water and add to oils before adding lye solution. Thanks so much

 

[dmcgee5034]

Hi @CLMP - I use 1% of oils, and dissolve it in the same amount of liquid. I MB my lye, so I just take part of my extra liquid to mix my additives, which includes the sorbitol. I give them a good mix and let them sit a few mins and mix again, just to be sure everything dissolved completely.
ETA - I blend my additives liquid to my oils before adding my lye solution because it seems to not speed up my trace as much.

 

[CLMP]

Hi @CLMP - I use 1% of oils, and dissolve it in the same amount of liquid. I MB my lye, so I just take part of my extra liquid to mix my additives, which includes the sorbitol. I give them a good mix and let them sit a few mins and mix again, just to be sure everything dissolved completely.
ETA - I blend my additives liquid to my oils before adding my lye solution because it seems to not speed up my trace as much.

Thank you @dmcgee5034 Does this mean I can mix both sorbitol and sodium citrate together at the same time with a little distilled water and then add to my oils before adding lye.

 

[dmcgee5034]

Yes, you sure can. I mix up my 10g Sorbitol, 10g sodium citrate, 10g sodium lactate, and 30g goat milk powder with 50g liquid (AVJ, for me) for 1000g oils/fats. Let us know what you do and how you like the results.

 

[CLMP]

Yes, you sure can. I mix up my 10g Sorbitol, 10g sodium citrate, 10g sodium lactate, and 30g goat milk powder with 50g liquid (AVJ, for me) for 1000g oils/fats. Let us know what you do and how you like the results.

Sure I will Thanks so much. I would like to mention I tried goat's milk soap a while ago. A woman gave a bar of it to my mom to give me to try when my mom told her I make soap to and it was so nice, amazing lather and no soap scum at all, I wish I knew who she was anyways I realized she must be using sorbitol and sodium citrate and realized I should really start using it too because a I do get lots of soap scum.