Soap too cleansing?

[jcandleattic]

Really? Wow! To me that just seems too cleansing. I only use CO and the highest I go on it is 15% unless I am doing a 100% CO bar. But then I prefer really high conditioning soaps.

It is always interesting to learn what people do differently. I was questioning Melstan because she is only on her first soaps and I wanted to make sure she realized she doesn't need both. One or the other is all you really need since they serve pretty much the same purpose.

Thanks for letting us know it can work.

you're welcome. I have tried other recipes, but I always end up coming back to this one because it just performs better and is my best one...

 

[melstan775]

Why are you using coconut oil and PKO? You don't need both and you are increasing you cleansing by way too much.

I was just trying to help out the OP and plugged in number based On the supplies listed onhand

 

[LunaLion]

I thought the original poster was working toward a better "score." =

I'd like my soap in the recommended range, but the post was because my recipes don't just have high cleansing, they have insanely high cleansing! Lol. Now I know I don't have to batch precisely to SoapCalc recommended range, but I'm also not going to venture out into anything too extreme.

 

[semplice]

I've discovered that my skin likes really low cleansing numbers in the 14 - 16 range. 17 is drying to me. I've used PK flakes and coconut in the same recipe, and they were fine. I only used 10% of each though.

Keep adjusting your percentages until it works. I've spent hours on lye calculators getting the numbers where I want them.

 

[nebetmiw]

I have to agree that Soapcal numbers are just suggestions. I make a soap with a clean of 27. It is not drying at all. They have dropped there numbers from where they were years ago.

Interestingly Soapmaker 3 does not use that value at all. Probably because it is not a major issue. Superfat takes care of it very well.