Is expensive butter worth it?

[thefarmerdaughter]

About 3 months ago I began using sunflower in my recipe. I only ever make GM soaps, so they are already creamy. The sunflower oil added richness to the lather and extra conditioning. The down side to it is using it at too high a percentage will yield squishy soap.

 

[ambers_artworld]

I have certainly seen a lot of positive things being said about high oleic sunflower oil lately, I'm gonna add that to my to-try list, along with avocado oil and shea. As for goat's milk, I've been dying to try it, and there are lots of farms around here where I could probably get it fresh...as far as sticky castor soap, I'm just gonna give it a try and see. If the lather is luscious enough, it will be worth a bit of stickiness, but if it feels like glue and only a few more bubbles, then nah.

 

[RocknRoll]

I have certainly seen a lot of positive things being said about high oleic sunflower oil lately, I'm gonna add that to my to-try list, along with avocado oil and shea. As for goat's milk, I've been dying to try it, and there are lots of farms around here where I could probably get it fresh...as far as sticky castor soap, I'm just gonna give it a try and see. If the lather is luscious enough, it will be worth a bit of stickiness, but if it feels like glue and only a few more bubbles, then nah.

This is just my experience with castor: I have used it in recipes of up to 15% and it didn't feel sticky or drag at all. I use it at about 10% now and i really like the lather from it. I would like to eventually get it down to around 8% though due to its expense.