No coconut oil recipe

[desiredcreations]

Can you get white chocolate morsels?
https://www.verybestbaking.com/products/4028/tollhouse/nestle-toll-house-premier-white-morsels/

The second ingredient is palm kernel oil.

SUGAR, FRACTIONATED PALM KERNEL OIL, MILK, NONFAT MILK, HYDROGENATED PALM OIL, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVOR. CONTAINS: MILK, SOY INGREDIENTS. MAY CONTAIN PEANUTS

Might be worth trying at 5 or 10%.

Wild! I went grocery store shopping in the desperate hope I'd find cocoa butter. No luck. But I checked out the ingredients list for "white baking chips". So I bought a bag. Sugar is good for bubbles, palm kernel and palm oil, milk are used in soap making. I gotta do a test batch.

 

[lsg]

Playing around with SoapCalc, I came up with this combination. You won't have much bubbly lather; but you can use sugar to up the bubbles.

8% Castor
20% Beef Tallow
32% Rice Bran
30% Avocado
10% She Butter

 

[earlene]

Wild! I went grocery store shopping in the desperate hope I'd find cocoa butter. No luck. But I checked out the ingredients list for "white baking chips". So I bought a bag. Sugar is good for bubbles, palm kernel and palm oil, milk are used in soap making. I gotta do a test batch.

When I was new, I got my cocoa butter at Dollar General, Walgreens or Walmart in this form:

Back then it was a Dollar, but I in a small batch of soap, it was enough. It is normally sold in the beauty products part of the stores. About the size of a lip balm tube.

 

[desiredcreations]

When I was new, I got my cocoa butter at Dollar General, Walgreens or Walmart in this form:
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Back then it was a Dollar, but I in a small batch of soap, it was enough. It is normally sold in the beauty products part of the stores. About the size of a lip balm tube.

Cocoa butter is apparently popular enough these days that it's become a lesser component in a mixture of many ingredients; listed after mineral oil, water, beeswax, and paraffin in the Queen Helene product.

 

[Zany_in_CO]

it turns out she is alergic to coconut and my recipe (and all that i have done in the past) contain coconut. That made me wonder how could i come up with a recipe without it. I told her i could try and come up with something. So... help?

You might like to make for a 100% olive oil soap.

Two Thumbs Up! Good suggestion! Here's a recipe for you:

Zany's No Slime Castile

Not only does it eliminate slime but it cures much faster than the old way of making castile and curing for 3 months - 1 year. There is a long list of testimonials from those that tried it and are happy with the results. If you don't have access to olive oil, use 100% almond oil. Feel free to add 5% castor to the batch. Any more than that may make the bar sticky.

YouTube Video. She makes it look SO easy. Be sure to follow the directions exactly. Her batch was slow to trace due to temps being too low.

 

[earlene]

Cocoa butter is apparently popular enough these days that it's become a lesser component in a mixture of many ingredients; listed after mineral oil, water, beeswax, and paraffin in the Queen Helene product.

For soapmaking I buy the solid cocoa butter stick. Cocoa Butter is the only ingredient. But I can see doing an online search would lead you to the wrong product.

Or perhaps you were only pointing out that cocoa butter is used in many things. I've been using products that include Cocoa Butter for well over 50 years, so it's not really a new thing.

ETA: Cocoa Butter in soap creates a harder bar because it brings a lot of palmitic & stearic acids to the mix, which for a bar that does not include animal fats, is generally desirable for a longer lasting bar of soap.

 

[desiredcreations]

For soapmaking I buy the solid cocoa butter stick. Cocoa Butter is the only ingredient. But I can see doing an online search would lead you to the wrong product.

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Or perhaps you were only pointing out that cocoa butter is used in many things. I've been using products that include Cocoa Butter for well over 50 years, so it's not really a new thing.

ETA: Cocoa Butter in soap creates a harder bar because it brings a lot of palmitic & stearic acids to the mix, which for a bar that does not include animal fats, is generally desirable for a longer lasting bar of soap.

My point was I searched health & beauty sections of several stores in my area, and the closest things I could find related to cocoa butter were products with some cocoa butter mixed with other ingredients. Years ago, when I searched for similar types of products, it seemed easier to find mono ingredient products.

 

[cakrt]

Use Babassu Oil in place of Coconut oil. Recalculate your recipe.

 

[AliOop]

Use Babassu Oil in place of Coconut oil. Recalculate your recipe.

They are talking about cocoa butter, not coconut oil. The two behave very differently in soap, so babassu is not a good replacement for cocoa butter at all.

 

[cakrt]

They are talking about cocoa butter, not coconut oil. The two behave very differently in soap, so babassu is not a good replacement for cocoa butter at all.

The original post wanted a replacement for coconut oil. Then the thread began talking about cocoa butter. Sorry, but that was my interpretation. I do understand the difference along with the contributions in a soap formula. Cocoa butter does not contribute to the lather at all. It is a hard butter that contributes to conditioning. Its properties is emollient and great for dry skin. "
it turns out she is alergic to coconut and my recipe (and all that i have done in the past) contain coconut. That made me wonder how could i come up with a recipe without it. I told her i could try and come up with something. So... help?" is the Original Post

 

[AliOop]

The original post is from 2018, and that person hasn’t visited the forum for a year (you can see that by clicking on their avatar).

Also, when a thread has changed subjects, like this one has, it helps everyone if you tag the person to whom you are responding. You can do that by putting an @ in front of their name, and then selecting the correct username from the list that pops up. You could also click Reply from the specific post to which your response is directed.

That avoids confusion like we experienced here, because your post directly followed a group of posts that were all about cocoa butter, and no one would otherwise suspect that you were trying to answer a post from four years ago.

 

[cakrt]

The original post is from 2018, and that person hasn’t visited the forum for a year (you can see that by clicking on their avatar).

Also, when a thread has changed subjects, like this one has, it helps everyone if you tag the person to whom you are responding. You can do that by putting an @ in front of their name, and then selecting the correct username from the list that pops up.

That avoids confusion like we experienced here, because your post directly followed a group of posts that were all about cocoa butter, and no one would otherwise suspect that you were trying to answer a post from three years ago.

Thanks. I didn't notice the date. I will be more attentive next time with the thread, person to be tagged and the date. Many apologies. I began using babassu when I learned a customer was allergic to coconut oil. I love cocoa butter in soaps.

 

[AliOop]

Thanks. I didn't notice the date. I will be more attentive next time with the thread, person to be tagged and the date. Many apologies. I began using babassu when I learned a customer was allergic to coconut oil. I love cocoa butter in soaps.

Yes, babassu is a great sub for CO. It is very expensive and a little hard to source for me. Do you have a good supplier?

 

[cakrt]

Yes, babassu is a great sub for CO. It is very expensive and a little hard to source for me. Do you have a good supplier?

Yes, I order from GetNaturalEssentials. The price is the best, the shipping is fast. I tend to use babassu a lot. It creates great lathers, stable bubbles and contributes to a nice hard bar.

 

[AliOop]

Yes, I order from GetNaturalEssentials. The price is the best, the shipping is fast. I tend to use babassu a lot. It creates great lathers, stable bubbles and contributes to a nice hard bar.

Thanks so much - I will check them out!