Need a good recipe

[hiacyntheab]

I"m looking for a good recipe for cp soap. I would like to start trying to add some additive and colour but am not sure how to do it. If any one has some good recipes. Looking for a good moisture and hard bar. If anyone can help that would be great.

 

[ChrisShepp]

What sort of ingredients do you have on hand? Do you have a preference for all vegetable or is lard/tallow OK?

 

[hiacyntheab]

i have co po oo coco butter and a few others but that's the main ones on hand.

 

[cwarren]

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[TessC]

I've not found that to be true at all. There are quite a few people who aren't willing to hand over their top-selling secret recipes, but I've also seen a ton of recipes shared.

A very good place to find nice basic recipes that you can modify and tweak to your heart's desire is Miller Soap: http://www.millersoap.com/

There are all-veggie recipes, some with animal fast, and a huge wealth of information that every soaper should read. Just make sure to run any recipe, even from a good site or book, through a lye calculator before you make it, you just never know and even the most reputable people could typo something.

 

[carebear]

I"m looking for a good recipe for cp soap. I would like to start trying to add some additive and colour but am not sure how to do it. If any one has some good recipes. Looking for a good moisture and hard bar. If anyone can help that would be great.

I'm looking for a good looking man with lots of money.

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This said, I've posted a few recipes myself, of which I am quite fond, as have many others. I suggest reading through the forum and finding them.)

 

[cwarren]

I've not found that to be true at all. There are quite a few people who aren't willing to hand over their top-selling secret recipes, but I've also seen a ton of recipes shared.

A very good place to find nice basic recipes that you can modify and tweak to your heart's desire is Miller Soap: http://www.millersoap.com/

There are all-veggie recipes, some with animal fast, and a huge wealth of information that every soaper should read. Just make sure to run any recipe, even from a good site or book, through a lye calculator before you make it, you just never know and even the most reputable people could typo something.

I stand corrected ! thank you for sharing that info .. I had not found that site

 

[Hazel]

I"m looking for a good recipe for cp soap. I would like to start trying to add some additive and colour but am not sure how to do it. If any one has some good recipes. Looking for a good moisture and hard bar. If anyone can help that would be great.

I'm fairly new to this process too.. I have learned NO ONE will give you a recipe.. there are newbies and people who sell soap.. so they will not share that.. you must learn that on your own.. I would say get a book .. thats what I did..

A lot of people share recipes on this forum. I've also shared recipes on so I don't feel your comment is accurate. Also, people have posted recipes in the "Soap Making Recipes & Tutorials" subforum. Have you looked through this section?

Here's a link to one I posted.

http://soapmakingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18933

honor435 kindly gave me a recipe and told me I could share it with others. So, here's the link for it.

http://soapmakingforum.com/forum/viewto ... t=honor435

 

[BakingNana]

I find everyone to be most generous here. I've gotten my best ideas from other soapers on the forum. There are so many recipes out there that I wish I had more time to "cruise." 8)

 

[scouter139]

Sometimes I wonder if newbies just don't understand that when you tell them for example...

olive oil 50%
coconut oil 20%
palm oil 25%
castor oil 5 %

that you are giving them a recipe. You are giving them percentages that make up your favorite recipes for them to use according to HOW MUCH soap they need to make. If I need a 1 lb recipe the total ounces will be different than if I need a 4 lb recipe. What new soap makers need to realize is, it's really difficult, especially when alot of members sell and might be making big big batches for them to give you exact measurements. I don't think they know enough to know you ARE giving them your recipes, they just need to take them to soapcalc and figure out the amount of ounces they need.

 

[Jezzy]

I find everyone to be most generous here. I've gotten my best ideas from other soapers on the forum. 8)

Me too! I have made 2 recipes that have been shared in the forum that are sooooo good.

 

[Best Natural Soap]

I would add CASTOR OIL to your arsenal of oils. The bubbles it can produce are so fluffy and wonderful! For small batches, you can purchase it from the pharmacy area of the grocery store. People still use it as a laxative... blech! Shea can be found in lots of health food stores. Our grocery store even stocks sunflower and coconut oil (just in pricey, small quantities).

I was looking for the recipe I shared a few weeks back-- can't find the post!!
So, here's another that makes wonderful bars:
CO 25%
PO 25%
Sunflower Seed Oil 30%
Castor oil 10%
Shea Butter 10%

I double checked for no typos!! And, it was run through Soapcalc.
Have fun!

 

[monica123]

I am new and the % recipes confuse me, so does the lye calculator, so I completely am understanding where other newbies are

 

[Best Natural Soap]

Here's a quick and easy way to turn those %'s into a usable recipe (for beginners using % recipes):

Go to http://summerbeemeadow.com/content/lye- ... pe-resizer. Enter the names and %'s of each oil in the formula, then click "Click here when done." On the next page, you can enter the dimensions of your mold, and it will figure the entire recipe for you, including lye and water.

Veteran soapcrafters who formulate their own soaps often use soapcalc.net because it gives them the ability to see how changes in %'s effect qualities in their finished bars (google INS values for more about that).

Anyway- hope that helped someone!

 

[Best Natural Soap]

After you've made some soap and satisfied the craving...
Check out soap calc, and click on all the tabs-- you'll learn so much about soapmaking-- your eyes will start to glaze over... but you can come back to it later.
Another useful helper for me was "The Everything Soapmaking Book" by Alicia Grosso. She has really nice, easy recipes, basic explanations-- a little bit about everything. It's a good introduction.

 

[GardenGirl]

Sometimes I wonder if newbies just don't understand that when you tell them for example...

olive oil 50%
coconut oil 20%
palm oil 25%
castor oil 5 %

that you are giving them a recipe.

I think that's a valid point.

Also, no one wants to waste money/ingredients/time on their first batch of soap! We all envision a perfect first batch and want it to be a fantabulous bar so that it validates our new soaping experience and encourages us to keep at it.

And, some of us country chickens are still on dial-up and searching forums is a time consuming process. We want to make soap, not scrum around in forum archives for hours till our eyes are glazing over.

My best first recipes came from books, that way I didn't have to wonder <so> much about typos or using lye calculators or wondering about how much castor oil is too much, etc.

My recommend, if you don't want to take the time to search this, and other helpful sites, for recipes, is to get a good book.

 

[Hazel]

I am new and the % recipes confuse me, so does the lye calculator, so I completely am understanding where other newbies are

Monica,

I know exactly what you mean and I was the same way. But after you do a few, you'll wonder why you ever thought it was confusing.

Did you see this section?

http://soapcalc.net/info/helptext.asp

 

[monica123]

Which books would you recommend?

 

[Best Natural Soap]

I posted my favorite little-bit-of-everything soap book on page one of this thread--

 

[Hazel]

Which books would you recommend?

I have quite a few soap books but the one that really motivated me to stop reading and start soaping was Anne Watson's "Smart Soapmaking".