Salt and Sugar Conversion to Percentage

[zlisik]

I can't seem to find much documentation the net about this topic. Most of the stuff I find seems to be from Americans with their lovely imperial system and volume measurements.

So most places I've read recommend:
1 tsp Salt per 1 lbs of oil
2 tsp Sugar per 1 lbs of oil

I'm trying to convert to percentages, so that it scales nicely with this calculator. I came up with:
Salt 1.32% of oils
Sugar 2.76% of oils

Can anyone confirm or tell me the correct percentage?

I did try these on a castile soap, with gelling and a 2:1 water:lye ratio and the darn thing could unmold and cut in about 24 hours (I was surprised). no adverse side effects yet observed with this percentages.

 

[Yooper]

I don't know about the percentages, but 1 tsp is about 5 grams.

 

[zlisik]

yeah. the first step in calculating was to convert the tsp to mass -- thankfully there's generalized info about salt and sugar online for baking and nutrition purposes. When I calculated I think I used...
2 tsp sugar = 8 g
1 tsp salt = 5.6 g

 

[DebbieE]

Checked online conversion calculator. One tsp rounds up to 5 gm. A pound of oils rounds up to 454 gm. So 1 tsp salt is 1.1% of oils and 2 tsp sugar is 2.2%.

 

[zlisik]

Thanks Debbie. That gives me some peace of mind.