Silver in Soap

[rubberducky]

Has any body tried or is it possible to use ionic or colloidal silver when making soap?

 

[seven]

nope. i do have a bottle but haven't used it yet.

 

[Dorymae]

I haven't tried it but I would imagine colloidal silver would be easy to incorporate, the problem is I'm not sure what the lye would do to it. As I understand it sodium hydroxide precipitates silver oxide causing it to come out of solution and looks pretty icky. I don't know the chemistry behind colloidal silver, I do know the molecules are small but how that would be affected I'm not sure. You could always do a test batch and find out.

 

[seven]

a couple of old threads about the subject:

here

here

 

[Nevada]

Ran the method of adding Lye to Ionic Silver by a chemist and he said there would be no adverse reactions and no precipitation.
My Ionic Silver Soaps turned out well, very soothing on the skin. Really should make some more.

 

[rubberducky]

Thanks for the info



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[rubberducky]

just done a batch

I used ionic silver as my water base and noted no issues. It is a cold process batch so will waits and see...:roll: