I just want to make my transparent dish soap thicker.

[everywherewherewhere]

It is storebought. What can I use that will keep the soap transparent? Stearic acid and Propylene glycol are the only possibilities I could find. Would one of these work for my problem? Do you have other suggestions?

Would I have to heat up the ingredient and the soap to mix them?

 

[lsg]

Check out this link:
http://www.plushfolly.com/page.php?id=135

 

[carebear]

a few DROPS of salt water might help.
some FOs will thicken also (some will thin), try mixing the FO first with an equal amount of PS 80 (or 60 or 20).

 

[everywherewherewhere]

Thank you lsg that is quite useful. So gum arabic and guar gum work the best but if I remember correctly neither of those are transparent?

Thank you carebear I'll try the salt water later today and I found a list of thickening FOs and I'm looking into which are transparent.

I also happened to find Carbopol products, I am looking into obtaining some of that to test.

 

[SoapyStacy]

You can't just cook off (evaporate) some of the water?

 

[everywherewherewhere]

You can't just cook off (evaporate) some of the water?

Oh snap I didn't think of that. I'll have to try that too. Do I have to be careful with heating too high? I'm a bad cook haha.

 

[lsg]

Use an old Crockpot and keep on low.

 

[everywherewherewhere]

Thanks I think it worked. I'm going to test it some more next week.

Thank you all this has been helpful.

 

[carebear]

Be ever so careful in heating to evaporate water. If it boils over (and it does, OH SO EASILY) then it is a royal pain to clean up!

 

[Barquentine]

It depends what you mean by "soap". Do you know what's in it?

 

[fiddletree]

Salt will make it opaque.

Try evaporating out some of the water over a double boiler.