Below is the recipe that we are going to prove.
Gerry's Easy Soap Recipe
Small Batch - Total of 38 oz Oils
COCONUT OIL 9.5 oz (269.32 grams)
OLIVE OIL 15.2 oz (430.91 grams)
VEGETABLE SHORTENING 13.3 oz (377.04 grams)
WATER 14.44 oz (409.36)
LYE 5.32 oz (150.99)
Open SoapCalc and go through the steps:
(1) Select NaOH for bar soap (KOH is for liquid soap)
(2) Select pounds, ounces, or grams – In this example, we am going to select ounces. (the view printout will be in grams also)
(3) 38% of water to oils is good for beginners (some use 35%, you will get a little faster trace)
(4) Super Fat at 5% is about average. I usually super fat at 6.5% for a little more conditioning bar. (this means I am using a bit less lye) Some people add oil at trace and this is also called "super fatting". I don't do this, I simply super fat at a higher % to begin with.
(5) We are selecting COCONUT OIL in the oils column. In block (6), we click the + to add that to our list of oils. We will select OZ in block (7) and type in 9.5 ounces. Next, we select OLIVE OIL and enter the 15.2 oz. We will select Walmart GV ALL VEGETABLE SHORTENING (you can use any brand of solid shortening) and enter 13.8 oz.
Click Calculate Recipe. This is what we get.
We can look back in block (5) and see the total numbers (in blue) of our total soap properties and see that we have good high numbers in all points.
If we are satisfied with our numbers, we can go on to View Recipe. (Just for the record, you could increase your coconut oil to 30% and lower one of your other oils 5%. If so, that would increase your hardness number, but it would lower your conditioning.)
Click View Recipe. This is what we get.
Water and lye amounts are in the purple, oils are in the green areas and your averaged numbers in the center column in yellow.
Now we know we can make good soap with this recipe. We will write in our soap recipe name at the top, print it out and make good soap!
This is great, Gerry...I'll be going over to my friend Julie's place in a couple of hours...stamp and cut the soap into bars...Oh, I can hardly wait. I'm going to share this post with her as well as the info in the email that you sent me...because I never stopped to consider the "hardness" factor of the soap etc...I want a hard soap...but it needs to lather good and condition, too!!! Much love and hugs from Oregon...Heather :) :) :)
ReplyDeletep.s. I can make soap now...I feel farmgirl super cool!!!!
Ohhhh, your soap looks good enough to eat! I'll have to go back through your blogs and see if you have a recipe for soap for those of us with oily skin.
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Saw that you were following me, so checked out your blog and am following you. Love soap....I made candles for a while, I keep switching around since I love crafts too....making jewelry right now in between hanging with my grandkids and kids too. Life is good..looking forward to your blog.
ReplyDeleteHi Gerry
ReplyDeleteThat does sound like a good recipe. Now how DID you come up with that recipe? I have made cold process soap but have only followed recipes. Do you make your own? How does one do that?
Love cold process soap. Yours are lovely.
have a great day
Judi
Hi Judi, Once you familiarize yourself with the properties of oils it becomes quite easy. Use something high in bubbles, something high in conditioning, some hard oils, some soft oils and with the proper amount of lye and water, you will have good soap. :)
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ReplyDeleteThis post is very inspiring to get my soap making items out and to get used! I have been trying by moving my plastic bin into the house but now I will get busy trying your link and I love your site.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
Smiles, cyndi