Soapcalc 100% Olive Oil

[Cal]

I am about to make a Castile soap using 100% Olive Oil as I have been reading how mild it is and good for skin. However, when I checked with soapcalc it is showing zero for cleansing in the soap quality/fatty acids column. For a newbie like me this is puzzling as it appears so many people like a Castile soap. Does it clean though and why is soapcalc showing zero?

 

[IrishLass]

Pay no mind to those cleansing #'s on SoapCalc for 100% OO soap. They are not accurate and should be taken with a huge grain of salt. Your 100% OO soap will clean you just fine (trust me), but it'll do so gently.


IrishLass

 

[Cal]

That's good to know IrishLass. I'm going to make it because my husband gets eczema on his hands with some soaps. So presumably soapcalc is ok for working out weights/percentages/lye of ingredients for a newbie? Is there another calculator I should be taking a look at? I have been reading here not to rely on recipes on the Internet but to check them out first.

 

[IrishLass]

So presumably soapcalc is ok for working out weights/percentages/lye of ingredients for a newbie?

Yes- SoapCalc is perfect for working out the correct weights and percentages of all your ingredients, and it's also excellent for keeping track of the fatty acid profile of your batch.

The section that leaves something to be desired is the section where it tries to predict the outcome of your soap qualities, i.e. cleansing, conditioning, bubbly lather, etc....That's because all the known info out there in Soapdom on fatty acids is only partially complete. I've got to give SoapCalc credit for trying, though, because even though the 'Soap Qualities' #'s are not spot on, I've found they are at least consistent enough to be used as a plumbline of sorts to compare your different soap formulas against each other so that you can tweak your formulas to make them better, i.e., if you find formula A to be too drying for you, for example, you can play with the cleansing and conditiong numbers to lower the cleansing number and/or raise the conditioning number, etc... or if Formula B is not bubbly enough for you, you can play with the creamy/bubbly lather numbers, etc... That's where the 'Soap Qualities" section shines and becomes useful. I don't know of any other free online calculator that does that, so I do all my calculating on SoapCalc.


IrishLass

 

[Cal]

Thanks for that. I'll use it with confidence now.