I have been gifted several containers of 'baby oil' with an ingredient list of grape seed oil, jojoba, and candula extract. Obviously I don't know the ratios of these oils, and I am not experienced enough to understand the properties of them and what would be best to enter in to soapcalc if I were to try and use them up. Any advice? Or is this a bad idea? Thanks!
Using up unidentified oil blend..
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Because you don't know the ratios, and the SAP values are so different, I'd use these to make body butter. That will also make the best use of the skin-loving properties in these ingredients, which usually don't survive saponification. Also, soap doesn't stay on the skin long enough for those ingredients to do as much good as they could do in a body butter.
A simple recipe for a firm body butter could be:
33% shea butter
33% mango butter
34% "baby oil"
1 tsp arrowroot starch per pound of oils/butters.
Melt the mango and shea together over low heat. When melted, stir in the baby oil and arrowroot, pour into your desired container(s), and refrigerate immediately until firm. If it's too firm, remelt and add a bit more of your soft oil mix. If too soft, melt and add a little more mango butter.
I like to keep my unopened containers in the fridge so they stay fresher while I use up the open one.
A simple recipe for a firm body butter could be:
33% shea butter
33% mango butter
34% "baby oil"
1 tsp arrowroot starch per pound of oils/butters.
Melt the mango and shea together over low heat. When melted, stir in the baby oil and arrowroot, pour into your desired container(s), and refrigerate immediately until firm. If it's too firm, remelt and add a bit more of your soft oil mix. If too soft, melt and add a little more mango butter.
I like to keep my unopened containers in the fridge so they stay fresher while I use up the open one.
Are you wanting to add in the baby oil as an ingredient or want to turn it into soap? I would use the Sap value for grapeseed since Jojoba has a very low Sap value and is really a wax, not an oil. You could try it in a small batch of soap, so you do not waste a lot of ingredients. Grapeseed oil is not a great oil in soap so I would not use it over 20%. I am never afraid of experimenting, sometimes it works out sometimes it does not.
Thank you for such an informative reply! That sounds like fun, I'll have to look around for the other ingredients, I don't have either of those at the moment.
If you have cocoa butter, you could use that at 50%, with 50% of your baby oil mix.
Or like Carolyn suggested, just make soap with it for fun. You might end up with something you like.
Or like Carolyn suggested, just make soap with it for fun. You might end up with something you like.
I am assuming it is primarily grapeseed oil, as that is first on the list, so that makes sense to use it's Sap value. I like experimenting, so I might just add small amounts to my next couple of batches!
Jojoba oil for me is often cost prohibitive and I love it in non-soap products. You've gotten expert advice here but I am an evangelist for lotion bars! So easy to immediately re-melt and tweak the recipe if you want something oilier or harder -- no waiting on a 6 week cure! You could do 1/3 each of shea butter (or cocoa butter), beeswax, and your mystery oil. Can't wait to hear what happens!
You're making my shopping list longer!
I only have a couple of oils as I'm pretty new to this, but I've really been wanting to make some other products. Now I have a pretty good excuse!
