You don't need palm. Try playing with soapcalc, maybe start with olive, coconut, cocoa or shea butter & castor, you can make lovely soap with those and good and hard too :wink:
I agree with Corrie - I have yet to make a soap using Palm. My soaps almost all start with OO & CO - from there I expand with other oils and butters. You don't need Palm to make a really nice soap which is also hard......