Need a better Shaving soap

[ade]

I've been using my home made shaving soap,since November.
Great results,nice shave and skin feels great.
50% beef tallow
20% coconut oil
20% castor oil
10% palm oil
And a little bennite clay
Works great with regular razors.

But I want to shave with a cut throat razor,and I need some thing a little more heavy duty,I need a thinker foam.
Some thing like this.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQLgRG4hC0A[/ame]

Any ideas.

Ade

 

[lsg]

Then it is my thinking that you will need to adjust your recipe for a creamier lather. You can do that by using SoapCalc.

 

[VanessaP]

I believe you want to get your stearic acid value up to 20, maybe even to 25, on SoapCalc, in order to get a thicker more stable foam.

With the formula you gave us, the stearic acid value is 12.

I reformulated to 65% tallow, 20% castor, 10% coconut and 5% stearic acid and that gets it to a stearic acid value of 20. I tossed the palm in favor of the higher stearic acid value in tallow and reduced the coconut because coconut gives the large fluffy bubbles - you're wanting to get the low dense bubbles

The last time I used stearic acid in soap was for HP. I did 3% and also used 1.5% sodium lactate with the full water amount that I generally do for HP. It took several minutes for it to come to trace despite the 3% SA and the high temps (I did not wait for the lye to really cool off) so I'm going to assume the full water and the sodium lactate helped to keep me from getting soap on a stick.

I would even make this and test it myself, except my husband shaves about 3 times a year so would never really use it LOL

 

[ade]

Thanks for great advice Vanessap.
Looks like I'm ordering some stearic acid soon.
I kinda converted to my home made shaving soap.