New soaper needing help

[JorgeSeven]

Hello everyone,
I just got into soap making and I’ve been trial and error testing with a few recipes and I’ve gotten to a point I believe i have a decent soap, but I would like some outside input.

My recipe is 25% coconut oil, 25% extra virgin olive oil, 20% lard, 15% palm oil, 10% shea butter, 5% castor oil. With 30% water as percent of oil weight.

Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

 

[bookworm42]

Looks good to me .
What superfat are you going to do? I recommend anywhere between 3-5%.
Also have you made soap with that high of coconut oil before? Some people find above 15% to be too drying, but others are fine with it that high. You won't know what you prefer unless you make it and try it yourself.

 

[justsomeguy]

You might want to make your lye concentration 33% instead of using the water as a percent of oils

 

[Nona'sFarm]

When I first started soaping, some of the best advice I got was to learn to use a soap calculator and to start with small batches.
I put your recipe in a soap calculator and here are the results. So looks like a decent recipe to start with and then you can tweak from here, depending on how the soap feels after curing.
Happy experimenting!

 

[Zing]

WELCOME to the Forum! I don't use lard but your recipe is kind of similar to mine. I really wanted to get it to fewer than 6 oils/butters but that didn't happen. I love coconut oil and use it at 24%. We like photos too, just saying.