Please tell me about salt bars

[dibbles]

I use the process used by Lisa on YouTube (I Dream in Soap) and love it! If you use fine Himalayan salt, the soap is not too scratchy at all. My customers can’t get enough of it. I do not find it necessary to cure my salt bars longer than my other soaps.

I am just relating my own experience, and this is the difference in the lather from my salt bars. The first bar is 7 months old and the second is 5 weeks.


Below is a bar from the same batch as the 5 week old bar above, after curing for about 2 years. So in my experience the longer cure time is important. If you get the results you want after a normal cure time, that's great!

 

[janesathome]

I use the process used by Lisa on YouTube (I Dream in Soap) and love it! If you use fine Himalayan salt, the soap is not too scratchy at all. My customers can’t get enough of it. I do not find it necessary to cure my salt bars longer than my other soaps.

I tried fine Himalayan salt in one of my salt batches and found it really scratched up my skin in the shower. Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! It’s fine on my hands - good for getting garden grime etc off - but I won’t share that batch of soap as I don’t want anyone slicing up their epidermis! I went back to sea salt for my salt bars.

 

[Midnight_Sun]

Since this seems to be the general thread for salt bars: am I correct in thinking that a salt bar recipe does not need sodium lactate? It certainly doesn't need help becoming a harder bar.

 

[Tammyfarms]

Since this seems to be the general thread for salt bars: am I correct in thinking that a salt bar recipe does not need sodium lactate? It certainly doesn't need help becoming a harder bar.

Yes, that is correct. No sodium lactate is needed.

 

[janesathome]

Since this seems to be the general thread for salt bars: am I correct in thinking that a salt bar recipe does not need sodium lactate? It certainly doesn't need help becoming a harder bar.

I stopped using sodium lactate in all my soap a long time ago - I use a tsp of sea salt PPO instead and I can’t tell any difference (except in the cost of ingredients )