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At 1st glance…The coconut oil is too high for myself and friends with dry skin. Also, I think there is an error above. You listed fragrance at 31%. Did you mean to type in 3%? I’ve never put more than 5% of any scent in my CP soaps.The water percentage is high. I typically use 2:1 water/lye ratio. I think it’s the canola that is causing the low hardness. Canola is know to cause DOS in soap at high percentages. Are you using High Oleic Canola?Personally, I like a lard soap so I’d swap lard for canola & lower the coconut amount. I would also adjust fragrance to 3%.Just swapping out canola for lard & leaving everything else as is helps the hardness quite a bit. Here’s a snapshot.
At 1st glance…The coconut oil is too high for myself and friends with dry skin. Also, I think there is an error above. You listed fragrance at 31%. Did you mean to type in 3%? I’ve never put more than 5% of any scent in my CP soaps.
The water percentage is high. I typically use 2:1 water/lye ratio. I think it’s the canola that is causing the low hardness. Canola is know to cause DOS in soap at high percentages. Are you using High Oleic Canola?
Personally, I like a lard soap so I’d swap lard for canola & lower the coconut amount. I would also adjust fragrance to 3%.
Just swapping out canola for lard & leaving everything else as is helps the hardness quite a bit. Here’s a snapshot.
