This has been a very interesting experiment to follow. Thank you for posting your learnings.
You are correct George about using one soap right after the other. I once did that on my hair with these 6 soaps and I felt that my hair had run out of my head with the 25% of Myristic & Lauric acids each soap has.
After a few days I started using one soap once per day on my hair and body and found out that my skin didn't feel different during the day for 6 days using different soap each day (I'm taking a bath every morning before I leave for work).
Your soap looks really good, did you CPOP, all of the soaps?
Isn't macadamia oil very yellow? Did it affect the color of the soap?
Well over two months of curing has passed and I have tried the macadamia soap bar. My skin senses have captured a more silky and maybe easier bubbly properties on this soap compared side by side with the already 7 months-old avocado oil soap. The same opinion has another soaper that I gave her these two soaps.
So I guess that the palmitoleic acid (C16:1) is an acid that contributes in hardening (as
It is an expensive oil and I don't think I'm going to buy any other when the remaining oil will end. I can make with it one more soap with 60-70% of it and I think it will be a great one...
Thanks for this. Macadamia nut oil isn't too expensive here.
Can you compare it to your RB or OO mixes for me please?
I have a question about the trisodium citrate. Why do you use it instead of sodium citrate? Does it help better than the sodium citrate with hard water?Hello everyone
After starting soaping 10 months ago with recipes and additives that I was mostly inspired by this forum, I feel the need to enter an era where I would like to get to know each oil / additive and what they give to the final soap. So I started lately to test a few soft oils and how will they behave.
The small batch recipes are:
40% SweetAlmond / ExtraVirginOlive / PomaceOlive / SunflowerHO / Canola / Avocado
30% Lard
15% Coconut
10% Palm Kernel
5% Castor
along with salt, sugar, trisodium citrate, silk fibers, oatmeal floor and lemon FO.
They are all the same recipes apart from the main oil and in a few of them (EVO, Canola, Avocado) that I added pigment colors so as to recognize them easier.
The soap with the Pomace Olive oil has no color in it and the green is from the oil itself as it like a butter type olive oil full of chlorophyll:
left: Pomace Oil, right: Pomace Oil inserted in soft oils
After two months I will start to test them and hopefully I will manage to understand any differences they have. I have written down the similar fatty acid profiles of each soap so as to have a guide on my criticism.
The canola oil soap has 15% of linolenic & linoleic acids in the recipe and I hope that it won't have any DOS during or after cure. For sure it will get rancid easier if the environmental conditions are not good (humidity, heat, light, metal surfaces) while curing, but I wanted to ask if it is also for the self life of the oil. The one I used has a self life until July 2016 so that means it will not get rancid easily if it will stay in good conditions after cure for almost one year from now?
Nikos
I have a question about the trisodium citrate. Why do you use it instead of sodium citrate? Does it help better than the sodium citrate with hard water?
I have a question about the trisodium citrate. Why do you use it instead of sodium citrate? Does it help better than the sodium citrate with hard water?
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