The perfect recipe?

[dagmar88]

Hi,
I'd like to create a luxuary soap recipe; with loads of special butters & oils.
But I don't seem to get it bubbly enough...
Could I add more then 15% of castor oil, and then compensate the softness by adding beeswax? I'd like to know from anyone who has experimented with this :wink:
thanks!
Dagmar

 

[carebear]

I've found that beeswax suppresses bubblage and is a terrible pain to work with.

I know it sounds odd - but try seriously increasing the coconut oil - to as much as 75% and then using your luxury butters for the remainder. Then just superfat to about 10%, even a little higher. Just don't use any oils or butters that tend to go rancid easily, like hemp.

With the high level of CO you will naturally get a hard bar that bubbles ferociously, the luxury butters will make your lather more creamy, and the high superfat will mitigate the high cleansing nature of coconut oil soap.

(soap a recipe like this on the warm side - oils and lye about 110F or so. this will actually reduce the risk of your soap seizing and such)

 

[dagmar88]

wow, thank you carebear, that's a really good tip!
Deffinatly going to try that out

 

[MikeInPdx]

You can also add a small amount of cosmetic clay to your recipe.....I use bentonite in my shaving soap and it increases slip, AND BUBBLES!

 

[dagmar88]

Hey
I know, I like clay a lot in soap; last batch I made was with pink clay, tea as a liquid and some roughly ground up tealeaves

 

[carebear]

Milk adds a lovely creaminess too... but not till you have several non-milk batches under your belt (IMO)