heart of dixie soap co
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i couldn't be more amazed and pleased than if i had invented electricity! good-bye old fashioned cold process!! i have sparkling white, fragrant soap!
i would appreciate your thoughts and comments....
i used a bb 18 bar soap mold. i use 54 oz oils to make a bar 1.125" thick. with this process it makes a bar 1.5" thick, which to me gives it a greater preceived value to customers.
another benefit i see is being able to use f/o's that accelerate trace or caused my soap to sieze!
i wanted to use up some mango butter and cocobutter, and plan to sub shea butter in the future.
i also wanted to use more olive oil, no crisco, and use steric acid to firm up the olive oil for whipping.
i used soap calc for my recipe.
melt the night before:
17 olive
7.5 palm kernel
12 coconut
4.5 castor
4.5 cocobutter
4.5 mango butter
4 steric acid
i used an 8% lye discount
7.5 lye
20 liquid
i added the lye to 12 oz water and let cool overnight.
the rest was reserved until just before adding fragrance:
blend:
1 oz aloe concentrate (10:1) liberty naturals
1 oz vegetable glycerine
1 tsp powdered sugar
6 oz coconut milk
it took about 6 hrs before the mold warmed up. i had placed an extra blanket over it. the next morning, out popped perfect soap! it had the consistancy of a medium-firm brick of cheese. it was easy to hand-bevel the edges.
these come from soap calc:
hardness: 49
cleansing: 23
conditioning: 47
bubbly: 31
creamy: 33
ins 165
with an 8% lye discount i figure it will increase conditioning and offset any negatives of a higher ins.
could someone suggest what type colorants i should use? i would like clear bright colors, as i believe they tone down after processing. i would like pink, purple, plum, yellow, golden, lime green and darker green so i can try my hand at swirling!
veteran rtcp's, i would sure appreciate your comments and suggestions.
i haven't been this excited in years!
monet
i would appreciate your thoughts and comments....
i used a bb 18 bar soap mold. i use 54 oz oils to make a bar 1.125" thick. with this process it makes a bar 1.5" thick, which to me gives it a greater preceived value to customers.
another benefit i see is being able to use f/o's that accelerate trace or caused my soap to sieze!
i wanted to use up some mango butter and cocobutter, and plan to sub shea butter in the future.
i also wanted to use more olive oil, no crisco, and use steric acid to firm up the olive oil for whipping.
i used soap calc for my recipe.
melt the night before:
17 olive
7.5 palm kernel
12 coconut
4.5 castor
4.5 cocobutter
4.5 mango butter
4 steric acid
i used an 8% lye discount
7.5 lye
20 liquid
i added the lye to 12 oz water and let cool overnight.
the rest was reserved until just before adding fragrance:
blend:
1 oz aloe concentrate (10:1) liberty naturals
1 oz vegetable glycerine
1 tsp powdered sugar
6 oz coconut milk
it took about 6 hrs before the mold warmed up. i had placed an extra blanket over it. the next morning, out popped perfect soap! it had the consistancy of a medium-firm brick of cheese. it was easy to hand-bevel the edges.
these come from soap calc:
hardness: 49
cleansing: 23
conditioning: 47
bubbly: 31
creamy: 33
ins 165
with an 8% lye discount i figure it will increase conditioning and offset any negatives of a higher ins.
could someone suggest what type colorants i should use? i would like clear bright colors, as i believe they tone down after processing. i would like pink, purple, plum, yellow, golden, lime green and darker green so i can try my hand at swirling!
veteran rtcp's, i would sure appreciate your comments and suggestions.
i haven't been this excited in years!
monet
