I was looking at base oils to make a harder veggie soap bar as my current palm/coconut/olive oil bars are too soft and seem to wear away very quickly compared to my lard-based bars.
I stumbled across Zen Soap's Single Oil Soap Swap page http://www.zensoaps.com/singleoil.htm and found a bar made from soy wax. A little research showed that soy wax is basically hydrogenated soybean oil.
I wasn't able to find much information on soy wax bars other than the zen page so I just winged it and made a batch using the SoapCalc numbers for hydrogenated soybean oil. It turned out a slightly off-white bar that was hard as a brick and not crumbly. It kinda looks like frozen tofu. It cleanses pretty well but has almost no lather.
I've made another batch and added a little hemp and castor oil and shea butter which I think will turn out pretty good.
Has anyone else experimented with soy wax soap? What were your results?
I stumbled across Zen Soap's Single Oil Soap Swap page http://www.zensoaps.com/singleoil.htm and found a bar made from soy wax. A little research showed that soy wax is basically hydrogenated soybean oil.
I wasn't able to find much information on soy wax bars other than the zen page so I just winged it and made a batch using the SoapCalc numbers for hydrogenated soybean oil. It turned out a slightly off-white bar that was hard as a brick and not crumbly. It kinda looks like frozen tofu. It cleanses pretty well but has almost no lather.
I've made another batch and added a little hemp and castor oil and shea butter which I think will turn out pretty good.
Has anyone else experimented with soy wax soap? What were your results?
