My First Batch EVER!

[Bullets]

Okay so I love this whole making your own soap idea. I already make my own powdered laundry soap, clean the house with vinegar, use steam to clean our floors, even chunk my own choc chips! So now I am rearing to try my own soap making. I have spent countless hours searching the internet and I have found this forum (as well as other websites) SUPER INFORMATIVE! So, I've been toying with soapcalc and think I've come up with a good recipe. I have everything except for the Shea Butter. Which I will order on amazon tonight. 5lbs for $17 including shipping raw ivory. AND I think it would be awesome to also do a laundry bar with some type of oil and just not superfat it. :shock: Anyway, here it is..

Water/Lye Rate 2:1

Olive Oil - 33%
Coconut Oil 76 - 25%
Lard - 24%
Shea Butter - 14%
Castor Oil - 4%

Superfat 5%
I also am going to add 1oz of Vit E 1000ui per LB I do as a preservative.

Hardness 42
Cleansing 17
Conditioning 54
Bubbly 21
Creamy 28
Iodine 56
INS 153
Lauric 12
Myristic 5
Palmitic 14
Stearic 10
Ricinoleic 4
Oleic 43
Linoleic 7
Linolenic 0
Verdict? What would you change? Thank you, crazy awesome soap community!

 

[AngelMomma]

Recipes seem to be so personal according to what you and your skin like. My skin is dry, so I have to knock the coconut down to about 18% I also am cheap so I would be hard pressed to put that high of a percentage of shea butter in. Although a dot of shea butter straight onto my hands works wonders. I also do a SF of 7% to help as well. I like the oils you used and I bet you will become addicted to soapmaking just like alot of other ppl!!!

 

[lizflowers42]

I have seen people use both 100% lard or 100% crisco for their laundry soap on the net becasue it's cheaper that way. My intention is to grind up my soap scraps to make laundry soap...but it's all superfatted so it might make stuff dingy. I love simple cleaning too-welcome to the forum! Great people here!

 

[Genny]

If you want to add vitamin e, that's fine. But bar soap doesn't require a preservative. Or do you mean antioxidant? If so, I think it would be more beneficial to add the vitamin e to all of your oils now to help extend their shelf life.

I think your recipe looks good though.

100% coconut oil soap with 0% superfat makes a nice laundry soap when combined with washing soda & baking soda and like lizflowers said, some soapers use lard instead.

We use a steam mop on our floors, too. Baking soda & vinegar make up most of our cleaning supplies in our house as well.