My hands feel dry!

[silhouette]

Hi all, i made a soap with 45% palm oil, 17% coconut oil, 20% rice bran oil, 10% sunflower oil and 8% castor oil. Sf at 7 %. My hands feel so dry with this soap though the conditioning no. on soapcalc was 54 and cleansing jus 14. Any suggestions. Thanx.

 

[Seawolfe]

I think it's a personal thing. Hubby loves my 5% SF bars and they dry my hands out like crazy. The same formula at 10% doesn't. I also really like my Genny's shampoo bar on my skin, and it's only 6% super fat but has a cleansing of 1.

 

[MagicalMysterySoap]

Do you have hard water? No matter what I do (sf from 5-10%) my soaps feel drying. Or at least clean, I never feel moisturized and always have to use lotion. I never really thought of soap as conditioning though, it's suppose to clean after all. But I keep reading about women having moisturizing soap and not having to use lotion afterwards but I figured maybe they have soft water.

 

[soap_rat]

How old is your soap?

 

[silhouette]

I do use soft water. It the palms n feet feeling dry. It fine on my face n body.

 

[silhouette]

Its jus 4 weeks

 

[Happysoap]

The soap is probably too harsh for your skin. Everybody's skin is different and likes different cleansing / conditioning no. My skin can not handle most of the popular recipes out there. I had a hard time figuring out what was wrong. Anything with a cleansing no of 5 or more freaks out my skin. My fav soap has cleansing no 3 and conditioning 58.

 

[fuzz-juzz]

Give it few more weeks and it should feel better. It probably hasn't cured completely yet. It shouldn't be too drying, but as previous comments said, everyone's skin is different.
Experiment with different recipes until you find a perfect one for you.
My body can handle 25% CO in recipes, but my face can't handle any CO. Coconut oil makes it into burning red mess. I make facial soap from lard and olive oil and it's really gentle even with 1% SF.

 

[Obsidian]

I really don't like soap with a cleansing number over 10 and the conditioning has to be over 60, anything else is just too drying. I've also switched from coconut to palm kernel oil and thats helped some. I also superfat between 8 and 10.
I do agree with giving it more time though, I cure my soaps for 8 weeks and it makes a difference.

 

[Susie]

I made a batch of soap, then only waited 5 weeks, and came here and complained about the lather.(It was also less moisturizing than I liked.) The experts said wait. I waited an extra 2 weeks. The difference is just amazing. Much more moisturizing, and the lather is just excellent. It makes no sense to me whatsoever that allowing soap to LOSE water will make it more moisturizing and lather better, but there you have it.

 

[silhouette]

Yes i guess waiting make sense since my laundry soap i made with 0% SF which s now over 6 months old does not dry my hand. Thanks all for ur valuable inputs.