Sunflower Oil

[saqqa]

Hello,
Has anyone tried to use 100% sunflower cooking oil for their soap ?

Where I stay only OLIVE OIL and SUNFLOWER oil are common (Olive oil are abit expensive)

What do you suggest ?
(Should I mix them together? )

 

[MorpheusPA]

Sunflower's about 70% linoleic acid, which many of us suspect of causing DOS over the long haul (it's a fatty acid that oxidizes and goes bad fairly easily). Overall, many of us limit our total linoleic + linolenic acids to 15%.

For the most part, I wouldn't use more than 10% to 20% absolute max of sunflower oil, just looking at the numbers. Too much more would potentially cause problems, and the soap will be soft besides.

However, there's also high oleic sunflower oil, which would be a great substitute for olive oil at any percentage you'd like to use it. If you have that, feel free to use 100% high oleic sunflower oil.

 

[lsg]

You can add some rosemary oleoresin extract is a natural anti-oxidant. You can try adding a little of that to the soap batter to prevent DOS>

 

[penelopejane]

This person did an experiment with single oil soaps. Search at the bottom of the page for phase 2 and 3 of the experiment where she goes through what happened over time.


http://alchemyandashes.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/single-oil-soap-experiment-phase-one.html?m=1

 

[osso]

High oleic sunflower is great. Use it in place of some or all of your olive oil.

 

[Skatergirl46]

High oleic sunflower is great. Use it in place of some or all of your olive oil.

I use HO Sunflower and love it in soap. It doesn’t have that slimy feeling that you can get from OO either.

 

[Lin19687]

Is HO Sunflower better then HO Safflower? I am debating on which one to use instead of OO

 

[cmzaha]

Here is a link for the single oil soap test after a year http://alchemyandashes.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/single-oil-soap-experiment-phase-3-one.html?m=1

 

[soapmaker]

I have been searching unsuccessfully for HO sunflower oil in Canada. Our local grocery store has mid-oleic sunflower oil. Not sure if this will do or not. I thought of trying to sub only part of the OO. I could ad ROE. Any other suggestions/knowledge?

 

[toxikon]

I have been searching unsuccessfully for HO sunflower oil in Canada. Our local grocery store has mid-oleic sunflower oil. Not sure if this will do or not. I thought of trying to sub only part of the OO. I could ad ROE. Any other suggestions/knowledge?

I'm in Ontario and have found high-oleic safflower in many grocery stores (Food Basics, Metro, etc). I haven't had luck finding high-oleic sunflower, but the safflower is quite nice!

 

[soapmaker]

Our Food basics doesn't have either one. I've never been to a Metro.