houseofwool
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I made a batch of Irish Lass's recipe that contains 25% coconut (using glycerin as water replacement) and found it to be extremely drying to my hands.
I want to experiment some more with dropping the CO down to something closer to 15-18% and likely upping the olive oil to help offset that. I also grabbed some HO sunflower oil today just to play with...
My usual soaping oils (for solid bars) are:
Coconut
Palm
Shea
Olive
Castor
I also have the HO Sunflower and cocoa butter available.
I'm assuming that the high levels of myristic and lauric acids have a similar effect as a potassium salt that they do when a sodium salt. Is that a reasonable correlation, or is it completely offbase?
I want to experiment some more with dropping the CO down to something closer to 15-18% and likely upping the olive oil to help offset that. I also grabbed some HO sunflower oil today just to play with...
My usual soaping oils (for solid bars) are:
Coconut
Palm
Shea
Olive
Castor
I also have the HO Sunflower and cocoa butter available.
I'm assuming that the high levels of myristic and lauric acids have a similar effect as a potassium salt that they do when a sodium salt. Is that a reasonable correlation, or is it completely offbase?