Zany is steering you toward a liquid soap making method that makes a soap that is lye heavy which is then neutralized with an acid. There are methods that do not require neutralization that make just as good soap as the neutralization method --
I agree. This is a good explanation of my method.
However, I'm OCD about clarity and recommend 0% SF for that reason, i.e., to saponify all the fatty acids to the degree that is possible, especially if there are fats that contain unsaponifiables which act as super fats, to my mind at least, in the final result. While it is commonly understood that
if you soap at 3% SF you no longer have to neutralize, I find that method does sometimes result in unsaponified oils that either float to the top or settle to the bottom during the 2 week sequester. I don't do that any more.
The addition of citric acid in the form of
20% CA dissolved in 80% water is intended to lower the pH of the soap... but I don't use it in all my formulas. I included it because it was listed as an ingredient.
Thank you for that link
@DeeAnna ! I was delighted to read it. I bookmarked it. She perfectly fills in all the necessary details of my brief outline of a liquid soap formula. Who has time for sharing all that information? Not me for sure. LOL I was happy to see that Jennifer accomplished it very well.
Jennifer wrote:
"A lot of the information I’m sharing here I learned from the Yahoo LiquidSoapers group," As a long-time member of that group, I learned to make LS from the pioneers of liquid soapmaking and happily passed it on as they disappeared and a whole new generation of LS-ers came along. I recognized myself in much of what she recommends. Her take on Cathorine Failor’s
“Making Natural Liquid Soaps“ reads like I wrote it! Haha.
