Soaping Recipe Swap

[BirdBrain]

What a pretty soap!!

 

[chiknwhisperer]

Ok I found my recipe book thank goodness. I need to squezze in a batch of soap before I leave late tomorrow night. Anyway, here is the recipe that I thought I had screwed up and then sold out of because it was liked so much. I can't come up with a good name for it though so oh well on that point.

Coconut oil - 6oz
Olive oil - 16oz
Palm oil - 14oz
Sweet almond oil - 6oz
Colorless jojoba oil - 6oz
Castor oil - 6oz
Water - 21oz
Lye - 7.75oz
Strawberry Delight FO

Here is another thing that I didn't write down though was how much FO I added. But it turned out great. I think I added 3 tsp though.

 

[BirdBrain]

You going to be gone long? I mailed your soap yesterday.

 

[chiknwhisperer]

I'm leaving at 1am on friday. And will come back late Easter. But I have a friend of ours tending to the animals and the house and bringing in any packages and mail. You know, like the important ones with my name on them lol.
It seems to me that I will be missing all my soaps that I am looking forward to

For never going on vacation since owning our home and me getting more animals it sure has bad timing. I'm more nervous about leaving the animals and missing my soaps then I am excited about going on vacation. Does that make any sense to any one or is it just me?

 

[MullersLaneFarm]

Here are some of my favorites (listed on my website)

3# Cocoa Butter Delight
(copyright Cyndi Muller 2000)
12 oz Lard
12 oz Olive
9 oz Coconut
10 oz Cocoa Butter
5 oz Sunflower Seed
16 oz cold water
6.5 oz lye crystals
1.5 – 2 oz Fragrance Oil or Essential Oil of choice
Temps: Water/Lye 100-110 degrees / Oils 120-130 degrees


3# Hog Wash (Laundry/Cleaning Soap)
(copyright Cyndi Muller 2002)
24 oz Coconut or Palm Kernel Oil
24 oz Lard
16 ounces cold water
7.5 ounces lye crystals
4.5 – 6 oz (combined weight) Sweet Orange Essential Oil & Rosemary Essential Oil
Oils and water/lye temperatures between 120 to130 degrees


3# Aloe & Cream Soap
(copyright 2004 Muller's Lane Farm)
12.0 oz Olive oil
12.0 oz Lard
10.6 oz Palm Kernel
7.2 oz Sunflower Oil
2.4 oz Sweet Almond Oil
2.4 oz Avocado Oil
1.4 oz Castor Oil

7.9 oz frozen whole cream
7.9 oz frozen Aloe Juice*
6.6 ounces lye crystals

At trace add 1 oz T-50 Natural Tocopherols (Vitamin E)
*I blenderized/liquified the leaves of an Aloe Plant and added additional Aloe Juice.


3# Pine Tar Soap
(copyright 2002 Muller's Lane Farm)
24.0 oz Olive oil
19.2 oz Lard
4.8 oz Pine Tar

14.6 oz liquid (I like frozen milk)
5.8 ounces lye crystals

Oils and water/lye temperatures between 90 to 130 degrees

 

[ametauss]

Hey Cyndi,

Could you use something else besides Lard?? I'm not a Vegi but would like to appeal to folks that are against animal fat in soap....

Thanks

 

[Morgaine]

I think palm is usually subed for lard. But you still have to run it through a lye calc.

I still haven't soaped with lard yet but I can't wait to see what it is like in soap from the swap.

 

[MullersLaneFarm]

You sure can, but the soap won't be exactly the same as it is with lard.

The two oils most commonly used to sub for lard or tallow are vegetable shortening and palm oil.

I live in the midwest and very, very, very rarely in the past 10 years of soap making have I heard anyone against the use of lard or tallow in soap. On the other hand, I've have folks looking for soaps made with lard.

If you take a look at a commercially made soap, you'll find their #1 ingredient is Sodium Tallowate ... i.e. Tallow

 

[Morgaine]

And most of the people here seem grossed out when I said I could make soap out of lard. But I think it might be an age thing too. All these people were intheir twenties and think of themselves as 'crunchy'. My neighboor who is in her 50's was really interested in it and remembers her grandma's soap made from lard. I keep letting that fear of piggy smell stand in my way of making it though.

 

[ametauss]

Thanks.... I'll try it with Palm oil....

What's the difference between Palm Oil and Palm Kernnel Oil???