super-duper-fat & thoughts on baby wipe solutions

[delicious]

I was wondering what happens if you use a superduperfat percentage.
Like a 50-60% superfat? (I have no idea what the maximum usually is)

I was thinking about the dixie drops or baby bits wipe solution. They are small cubes of god knows what (dixie drops says to be made of shea butter, aloe vera, EO and GSE and baby bits says to be made of soap). You take one small cube and dilute it in one cup of hot water and use that with cloth wipes or home made paper towel wipes.

I have already had dixie drops and my thought was: if this is only shea butter and there is no soap in it (or any other emulsifier), how come it dissolves completely in the water?! instead of flotting on top like any oil would. So I imagined that to make them the person mixed shea butter with soap and the rest of the ingredients (I believe there wasn't an INCI on the package, only a "this contains mainly..." but that was years ago.)
Baby bits, although I have never tried them, say that it is made of soap.

Now that I'm starting to make soap myself, I wondered if you can't just add a small amount of water/lye to an extra amount of oil to turn up with a soft and extra mega mild soap to use as a wipe solution or facial soap or I don't know what.
To make something similar to the dixie drops/baby bits I'm thinking of 100% (or close) shea butter so that the cubes still stays somewhat firm. But not necessarily 100% shea butter for other uses. Would liquid oils make an extra soft to liquid "soap"? (I guess you can't really call that soap anymore) Or would the whole thing just separate?

Does anyone know what that would do? Has anyone tried that already? Pictures?

 

[carebear]

for the superfat, I'd say try it - but be aware that if you have more oil than the soap can deal with you just have oil... typically the superfat (besides ensuring that the variability of natural oils doesn't lead you to a lye heavy soap) is there to help mitigate the stripping tendency of soap.

are you sure baby bits aren't just bits of baby? those would be quite gentle, I'd imagine.

Dixie drops http://www.nutritionaltree.com/reviews/ ... ution.aspx:

Main ingredients are Pure Shea Butter, Lavender, Tea Tree Oil, Aloe, G.S.E. (products that contain GSE have an indefinite shelf life).

Note "MAIN INGREDIENTS". Not "only ingredients". They clearly have some sort of emulsifier. [Oh, and if "indefinite" means "undetermined" then I can kinda agree with the GSE statement. If it means "forever" then I have to disagree.]

Without an emulsifier (soap is an emulsifier) then shea butter will just be gloppy.

 

[Lindy]

What about making a cream soap to be used with baby wipes? You could make it with Olive Oil, Shea Butter, Castor Oil and stuff like that. You could make it thin enough to be used with a pump bottle or just have it packaged with wipes that would be disposable. Mind you I prefer the idea of a pump because I just got a nasty image of dirty fingers going into the container (shudder). Anyways just a thought.

 

[lovethyscent]

Pure olive castile works, I usually shred them up for people that use them for baby wipe solution or you can cut them in tiny cubes. I just superfat at 5%.

 

[nattynoo]

I have always been facinated by these.
Another is the honey chunks???? I think thats it. Same type of thing anyway.
I worry about the dilution/water thing with bacteria... & sensitive baby bottoms... like newborn ones...

 

[lovethyscent]

I have always been facinated by these.
Another is the honey chunks???? I think thats it. Same type of thing anyway.
I worry about the dilution/water thing with bacteria... & sensitive baby bottoms... like newborn ones...

Well what I was told is you have to use the solution up within a few days or it will get ickies in it.