Palm Oil alternatives?

[topofmurrayhill]

if i can find the saw palmetto i will be able to provide to those and are coconut and tree nut free. I am also using olive oil and palm oil but saw palmetto is what gives it such great lather and bubbles.

You can use laurel berry oil to get lather without tree nuts.

http://sinfullywholesome.com/laurel-berry-oil-canada-usa.html

 

[not_ally]

I got curious because I had never heard of saw palmetto in soap, and the stuff is incredibly expensive. All of the products I saw were adulterated, most of them had to do with hair loss/restoration and prostrate function. The only reference I saw to the pure oil was on an article on using the pure/stabilized oil for hair loss, and it said that the pure stuff is $100 an OUNCE. Apparently it is extracted in tiny amounts from berries which can only be picked in a very small window of time, and it takes a huge amount of berries to make the oil, hence the price.

I realize that you said you were willing to pay for a quality product, but based on that, your 1 lb soap batch would cost almost $250, it might a good idea to consider an alternative!

Laurel berry is expensive, too, but at $70/kg it is a bargain compared to that