Wow, I need to know your secret. I have major problems with acceleration if I drop the temp below 120F for my recipe (20% GW 415), which also has 10% shea. Maybe it’s the lye concentration? I‘m typically using > 35% LC to cut back on ash.I have recently soaped successfully with an oil temp of 36 degrees (which is just under your 100 degrees) and I use GW415 or similar replacement if it is currently available ( with COVID it’s been a nightmare to get stuff). I use it at 20% of my recipe.
@ResolvableOwl I had never heard of sunflower wax. I found it in the US for about 10x the price of GW415 and 5x price of cocoa butter. (eta: I just noticed your earlier post about the prices of sunflower wax, and have now registered that you’re looking for hydrogenated soy)
This one, from US Amazon (SZ brand) doesn’t sound hydrogenated:”Sunflower Wax is a hard, fine crystalline (almost powder like), plant wax made through the winterization of sunflower oil (cooling oil very slowly and extracting high melting parts of it during the process).
Then there’s this one, from TheHerbarie.com. C-42 to C-60 ?!
“Sunflower Wax Pastilles consist of long chain saturated C-42 to C-60 esters derived from fatty alcohols and fatty acids.”
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