Increasing Amount Made from Recipe

[Fabius]

Hello All,

I have a recipe that I would like to use to make my first batch of soap. A couple of different web sites recommended this recipe for newbies:

18.5 oz olive oil
12 oz coconut oil
9 oz palm oil
1 oz shea butter
5.8 oz lye
13.5 oz water

This is said to make 51 oz (3.19 pounds) of soap. I want 4 pounds. My question is: 3.19 pounds is 20.25% less then 4 ponds. Can I increase each ingredient by 20.25% ? I'm suspecting it's not that easy.

Thanks,

Tom

 

[innerdiva73]

you can check it on http://soapcalc.net

 

[Fabius]

Thanks for the information and links. I used one of the calculators and got almost the exact same numbers as Juiceman.

 

[sososo]

your % are:
Olive Oil 45.68%
Coconut 29.63%
Palm 22.22%
Shea 2.47%

to make 4lbs
29.24 oz Olive Oil
18.96 oz Coconut
14.22 oz Palm
1.58 Shea
Of oils
To figure out lye/water, use a lye calculator using these amounts of oils

If you sum the oils in your recipe you obtain 4lbs of oils, but Fabius wants to obtain 4lbs of soap.

If he wants to obtain 4lbs of soap using a recipe for 3.19lbs, I think that is ok to multiply all the quantities (oils, water, lye) by 4/3.19=1.253918