Olivia care. Soap recipe

[welsh black]

I'm from uk and not sure if US recipe has to list largest volume first as in UK. I bought a huge bar - 8 onz of olive oil with tea tree. It lists just these ingredients in this order
Palm oil
Water
Glycerin
Olive oil
Parfume (essential oil)
Sodium chloride

Firstly - do you think being called a olive soap it has more palm than olive, and secondly what the salt for? by the smell. I would think the essential oil is a bit of lavender oil. Any one there have any ideas?

 

[Obsidian]

The salt could be to help harden the bar a bit.

 

[lsg]

If the maker is listing the ingredients in order of volume then it looks like the bar contains more palm than olive oil, but I have no way of knowing if that is what he/she did. Is there a website listed on the label?

 

[DeeAnna]

And, oh my, ... there's no lye!

 

[lsg]

The lye is used up by the saponification process. I used to add sodium hydroxide to my soap labels, but from now on I am just going to list "saponified oils of_______"

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[DeeAnna]

Yep, I totally agree, LSG. That's how I would do it if my ingredients list described what is in a finished soap. The problem is the ingredients list given by the OP doesn't list "saponified oils of ..." The ingredients list includes the oils that went into the soap pot. Lye goes into the soap pot as well as the oils.

IMO, an ingredients list should show everything that goes into the soap pot OR it should show what is in the finished soap like you do. It's not correct to pick and choose the ingredients to show on the list, as it appears this soap maker may have done.

 

[sistrum]

The problem with listing "saponified oils of" is the superfat oils which are left over. If you are going to list your ingredients like that you might as well use the INCI way which includes everything. On my soaps I put "made with" and list all ingredients.

As a soap maker when I see "saponified oils of" it seems they are trying to hide the lye, and that seems somewhat dishonest to me. It makes me think the whole ingredient list can't be trusted and I wonder what else they might be hiding. Or they are not experienced soap makers. Usually these labels contain words like "all natural" another thing which I consider an untruth and just put there to sell soap. And that's when I put the soap down and walk away. Just my opinion.

 

[lsg]

Yep, I totally agree, LSG. That's how I would do it if my ingredients list described what is in a finished soap. The problem is the ingredients list given by the OP doesn't list "saponified oils of ..." The ingredients list includes the oils that went into the soap pot. Lye goes into the soap pot as well as the oils.

IMO, an ingredients list should show everything that goes into the soap pot OR it should show what is in the finished soap like you do. It's not correct to pick and choose the ingredients to show on the list, as it appears this soap maker may have done.

I agree that the maker did a very poor job of listing ingredients.

 

[savonierre]

The problem with listing "saponified oils of" is the superfat oils which are left over. If you are going to list your ingredients like that you might as well use the INCI way which includes everything. On my soaps I put "made with" and list all ingredients.

As a soap maker when I see "saponified oils of" it seems they are trying to hide the lye, and that seems somewhat dishonest to me. It makes me think the whole ingredient list can't be trusted and I wonder what else they might be hiding. Or they are not experienced soap makers. Usually these labels contain words like "all natural" another thing which I consider an untruth and just put there to sell soap. And that's when I put the soap down and walk away. Just my opinion.

I think the very same way..