Sunflower oil question

[acesoapmaker]

Hi I'm a newbie - sorry folks! Can anyone tell me if I can use any sunflower oil in my recipes - i.e. from the supermarket Lidl for instance? I thought I'd bought some when I last ordered soap supplies and found I hadn't. Grrrr. I wonder if I need higher monunsaturates than polynsaturates. The bottle I have in my food cupboard is showing (per 100ml) Mono-unsaturates 27.0g/Polyunsaturates 55.0g.
The oil content of the recipe I'm trying to use is a faster trace one - 120g castor oil, 120g coconut oil, 80g shea butter and 80g sunflower oil. Has anyone used supermarket grade in their recipes please?
Help appreciated! Thanks.

 

[Kamahido]

As long as it is 100% oil (check the ingredients to make sure it is not a blend) you sure can. That is a lot of Castor Oil though.

 

[kchaystack]

Here is a post by DeeAnna on how to check and see if your sunflower oil is high oleic or not. You want to use the HO sunflower, not the regular stuff

http://www.soapmakingforum.com/showpost.php?p=557399&postcount=5

ETA - Also her post about it from her website....

https://classicbells.com/soap/highOleic.html

 

[acesoapmaker]

Oh thanks! I made this recipe in training and it came out well but we had sunflower oil from the soap suppliers. I wonder how it varies to what you buy in the supermarket.
Maybe the recipes used on courses are skewed towards cheaper ingredients as 4 of them were high in castor oil........

 

[acesoapmaker]

Kchaystack thanks so much. I thought as much. Luckily I didn't go ahead with it so you've saved me wasting my ingredients. I got as far as very gently melting down the hard oils but I've left them in the pan so I guess it won't hurt if I gently re-melt them again tomorrow when I get the correct sunflower oil. I'll have a look in the health store. x

 

[dibbles]

If you are near a Trader Joe's, the sunflower oil there is high oleic.