I need a simple Honey with Beeswax Recipe

[node4]

I am looking for an all natural oil honey, with beeswax recipe. Do someone have one? I need all of the calculations as I am new soaper.
Thanks
Jay

 

[honor435]

theres tons of recipes online, what oils do you want to use?
Also, we will help you, but you will need to do you own research, people that have been soaping for yrs may not want to give out their perfected recipe?
I dont use honey or beeswax, so I cant help ya.

 

[judymoody]

I just did an oat and honey bar that came out really well. Smells like breakfast. 75% OO, 25% CO, 1 T honey PPO, 3 T ground oats. I added the honey to the lye solution after it cooled. I did not use beeswax but if you added maybe 1 T PPO, it might impart some extra hardness to this recipe. These bars are pretty soft due to the high OO content and will take awhile to cure.

 

[node4]

I want to add some more palm oil, for lather, and I would like to leave behind beeswax after you wash. What are the calculations for lye. I cannot figure out the soap calculator.
Jay

 

[node4]

I want to use
Coconut oil
Palm Oil
Olive Oil
Honey
Beeswax
and maybe some oat action

 

[judymoody]

Go to millersoap.com and check out her "classic soap" recipe or her "castille II." I've tried both and they are good recipes with the oils you want to use and have all of the ingredients spelled out, including lye and water. You might want to halve the recipe though. I think hers run about 6 lbs of soap per recipe.

I don't know of any way to leave beeswax behind in CP soap. It will be incorporated with all of the other ingredients. Too much beeswax will also produce an overly hard, waxy bar, IMHO, so I'd go easy on it.

 

[lavenderlori]

I am new too but my basic recipe is

16 OZ OO
10 OZ CO
6 OZ PO
9.6 OZ Distilled water
4.7 OZ of Lye
110*

I have added honey and oats to this. This recipe fits into my metal loaf pan just perfectly.

 

[node4]

So is that a metal bread loaf pan? Also how much honey should I add? And what about he beeswax?
Thanks
Jay

 

[lavenderlori]

I'm no expert but if I were you I would add maybe 1 TBLSP of each to see. I added 1/2 C of ground oatmeal.

 

[ToniD]

Jay, Don't use a metal bread pan. They are usually made of aluminum-which will not react well with lye. An easy cheap mold is a box lined with freezer paper, shiny side up. Insulated disposable coffee cups work well, not the styrofoam kind.

 

[Sunny]

I PM'd you, Jay

 

[lavenderlori]

I line the loaf pan with plastic wrap BTW

 

[carebear]

I want to use
Coconut oil
Palm Oil
Olive Oil
Honey
Beeswax
and maybe some oat action

as stated - millersoap.com, then use the lye calculator at soapcalc,net

NEVER take someone else's lye amount. errors abound. ALWAYS check the lye amount for yourself. soapcalc.net is one good place; there are others.

 

[judymoody]

p.s. Be VERY careful with the honey. If you add it to your lye mixture right off the bat, it will overheat and could cause a dreaded lye volcano. Either wait for the lye water to cool to less than 100% before adding honey (it will turn bright orange and later in the process will fade to tan). Or you can add it at trace but some people have reported that it's hard to blend in completely. Also keep an eye on the soap after you pour it into the mold as it might overheat from the honey.

 

[rebekahp]

I always make beeswax & honey soap. I add no more than 5% beeswax to my oils & add 2tbsp of honey at trace. I find warming the honey first helps, as the raw stuff crystalises & can be hard to heap.

Don't add too much of either, as both can kill lather.

 

[Lindy]

First off - add your honey at trace, much safer. Too much beeswax is going to cut your lather, so keep that % quite low. When I do one with Beeswax I use about 1%. This gives me a nice hard bar.

Like Carebear said double check your lye & water on one of the soap calculators.

Good luck and have fun....

 

[node4]

So what is the difference between 76, and 92 degree coconut oil? What are the pros, and cons of each?
Thanks
Jay

 

[Guest]

I just did this and

my oatmeal is sitting at my elbow............. sigh no honey, no oatmeal in my oatmeal soap.......................

 

[carebear]

Haha. A while back I posted about making an oatmeal, milk and honey soap - and managed to leave out two of the three! (I forget which). Happens to all of us!

 

[soapbuddy]

So what is the difference between 76, and 92 degree coconut oil? What are the pros, and cons of each?
Thanks
Jay

Not much difference. I prefer to use the 92 because I live in a hot desert.