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O.k. so I've been rethinking my original soap recipe and putting in different numbers on soapcalc.com and have decided on the following. Tell me what you think. This will be my first soap to ever make and I am going to do a 1 pound batch when I get all my oils in (ordered several tonight along with my lye).

Olive Oil 30%
Coconut Oil 20%
Shea Butter 20%
Palm Oil 25%
Castor Oil 5%

SF of 7 %
 
I'm pretty new mysefl (half a dozen batches down the road), but your recipe sounds good to me. Simple, nothing extravagant and with a good ratio between hard oils and soft oils (maybe a little too much hard oils? You'll have to wait for some expert to jump in. Though I believe that if you don't soap too cool it would work out fine).
I had started out my two first batches with too much soft oils and they took forever to trace and are still quite soft after several weeks.
 

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