I used 1 lb of salt per pound of oil.
I would think a lot of things would play into factor. For one, the type of oils you use, if they are hard or soft, and then how much salt you use.
If your worried about gel, there are some things you could try to do to get them to gel.
1. Warm your mold in a preheated oven
2. Keep your lye and oils at the highest temps possible below your flash point of your FO's.
3. Heat your salt in the preheated oven as well.
4.Use oils that tend to be softer, say like Olive
4. use less salt, maybe 20 to 30%
5. This would be a really good time to use GM & Honey since they both heat up!
6. After pouring your soap in the mold, cover it and put it in the oven at around 200 degrees. This would be more like OP though. I would worry about the bars getting too hard on me!
Maybe you'll get a gel.
Even if you put it in the oven and turn the oven off I would still keep a really close eye on it because you HAVE to cut those bars before they get too hard or you won't be able to.
Salt does cause the soap to lose temp. rather quickly...thus why you could heat them to help stop this heat loss.
Personally I'd rather not worry about all of it and just say I did a non gel
Have fun!
