Recipe Question

[Badger]

I have made a few batches with my recipe and am fairly comfortable working with it. I would like to try a shea butter recipe and would like suggestions on how to change up my recipe to add the butter. My usual recipe is:

35% Olive Oil
30% Palm Oil
25% Coconut Oil
10% Castor Oil

I was thinking of dropping the OO and PO by 5% each and adding 10% shea butter. Does this sound reasonable or does anyone have any other suggestions? The numbers look pretty good in soapcalc, just would like other input on it

 

[Cherry Bomb]

http://www.soapmakingforum.com/f11/adding-shea-butter-soap-question-21819/

Maybe reduce your palm oil before you reduce your OO. I think that looks ok to me. Here is a fun link that talks about oil usage in case you have never seen it.

http://www.naturesgardencandles.com/mas_assets/pdf/soapoils.pdf

 

[melstan775]

I have a shea recipe at home. If you can wait til tonight I will be happy to share. There is also an easy Shea recipe on the teach soap website

 

[Badger]

Thank you both, I am not planning on making the soap today, so I can wait I am just kind of limited on oils. I downloaded that pdf file and looked it over some and it is going to be useful to me, I can see why you suggested dropping down the coconut instead of the OO after looking over the properties.

 

[100%Natural]

Here is one of my favourite Shea Butter recipes...my testers really enjoy this one..it's simple to make...requires only a few ingredients and really gives you a chance to try out Shea Butter....

Coconut 35%
Olive 35%
Shea Butter 30%