Soaping Recipe Swap

[Buckhorn Farm]

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How about trying a castile? You'll have to let it sit for about 6 weeks maybe.

Sure...do you have a recipe that you use? I have never used a castile, is it good for dry skin?

 

[chiknwhisperer]

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How about trying a castile? You'll have to let it sit for about 6 weeks maybe.

Sure...do you have a recipe that you use? I have never used a castile, is it good for dry skin?

It's a 100% Olive oil. Very moisturising.
Here is a recipe for a 1# batch with nothing added to it.

Lye-- 2oz
Water--6oz

Olive oil--1#

 

[Buckhorn Farm]

Hi chiknwhisperer....thanks so much I will give it a try.

 

[Morgaine]

I find castiles, while very moisterizing, are slimey feeling in the shower. I like a bastile, Mainly OO with some co and castor added for bubbles.
1 pound batch

Olive 12 oz
Coconut 3.2 oz
Castor .8 oz

Lye 61 grams

Use 75 grams water, add your lye and as soon as it's cool to 90, add 75 grams milk of your choice. then soap. It best to use regular OO, don't worry about it being extra virgin. Pomace is great if you have it.

 

[chiknwhisperer]

I'll have to try that recipe. It does sound good. How was everyone's 4th?

 

[Morgaine]

Hot, lol.

we did a craft fair instead of the farmer's market. Did fairly well. Might do it again. I did miss being at the amrket though. I was invited to participate in another festival in October. One of the ladies there was on the Madisonville Mushroom Festival committee and she said that it would be great to have us there. I'm checking dates and might do it.

 

[Backyard Buddies]

Our 4th was wonderful - beautiful weather and fun with friends at their pool. How was yours?

Wow! That's wonderful Morgaine! You're really busy with this soap business! Can't wait to hear about your new soaps.

 

[rkhyland]

Recipe Help!

A friend and I are just starting to make soap, planning to sell and bring in some extra money. We are currently playing with recipes, looking for a recipe that will make a nice hard bar, good sudsing, not too harsh. And, we have molds that make 8 bars. So we are looking for recipe ideas that will make 32 or 64 ounces of soap! We have palm, coconut and olive oils on hand.

Please reply here or email me directly [email protected]

 

[BirdBrain]

Kim,
try going on www.soapcalc.net and enter your oils. That should give you a good idea on how your final product will turn out. In general try to keep the solid oils and the liquid oils about even. You can make a very nice bar with those oils. Keep the coconut below 25-30%. Also get some castor oil (available at wal-mart by the laxatives) as it does a nice job with the suds. If you are not opposed to animal fats, lard is real nice for moisture as well as hardness. I usually melt it in the microwave so I don't get t too hot.

 

[Morgaine]

I hope this doesn't sound harsh, but I think you need to make a couple of batches before you even plan to sell. You need to make sure that what you are making is safe to use, lye heavy soap can really hurt.

As far as recipes, I would check out Millersoap.com

She has a lot of recipes for you to try and her web site it pretty much a book on soap making.

I would also reccomend the book, The Soap Maker's Companion. She covers everything you need to know about soap making. Once you have a recipe from one of those two sources, I would start to play around with Soapcalc.com They have a chart and graph that tells you what your soap properties will be like(hardness, moisterizing, lather, ect)

I would also start looking on some soap forums or reading through the soap makers thread. The more knowledge you have, the better soapmaker you will be.