The purpose of liquid / water in CP soap

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Woodi said:
Yes, I was surprised at how many medical claims she makes eg cures exzema etc....

and here I've been ever so cautious for 10 years of selling my lovely olive-oil based soaps laced with various butters. You mean, I COULD have been making lotsa money with medical claims like hers? Well blow me down with a feather....

I was thinking the same thing,, these would be illegal claims in Iceland.. Maybe not in the US?

Kveðja
María
 
Her accent makes ME think she's in Canada - or at least from Canada. And in Canada soaps and cosmetics are even more tightly regulated than in the US. Hmmm. Well, whatever.
 
xraygrl said:
First and foremost, use fresh oils. Use oils with a longer shelf life. Those with high linoleic such as grapeseed, soy, etc will have a much shorter shelf life, and therefore may cause rancidity in the soap. Also if you are overheating the oils, that can cause a breakdown of the oils leading to rancidity.

Thanks for the info, I'll dig around some and see if I can't find a list somewhere. Because I'm just getting back into it I've been making more grocery store soap, but my ultimate goal / dream is to have a barn out in the middle of BFE and sell soap and stationary and tea, and because I'm a licensed therapist, offer dance therapy and art therapy and gardening therapy and animal therapy etc... that would be the ultimate experience of bliss for me.... Even though I know I've still got a loooong way to go...


xraygrl said:
What oils are you using and at what %? what method are you using? Cp, Hp, what are your temps? Are you heating all of your oils, or just your solid oils? Do you cool the lye before adding to your oils? If you can answer these questions we may be able to help you with your rancidity problem.

To date I've only used Veg. Shortening, 48%; Canola, 20%; and Coconut, 30%. I just got back into making soap so don't have any made up / cured long enough to know yet, but I'm pretty sure back then I was using only crisco and probably it was kept room temperature in a cabinet somewhere. I didn't know...

Now I've both heated all oils or just the solids while I measure the liquids, I don't have a set process yet. I seem to favor heating all oils while measuring out the lye / water. The process used is CP. I mix them when I get the solid oils melted and the lye is fully mixed, I don't measure the temp as I don't have a good thermometer. Is temperature vitally important?
 
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