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Notes:
Olive oil is infused with comfrey & calendula
Take about 1 tablespoon of your measured liquid oils and make a smooth slurry with the 10 g kaolin. Stir that back into your entire pot of melted oils.
Add the 15 g finely ground oats directly to the oils and blend them in thoroughly. You want them very finely ground—not gritty oatmeal pieces.
Reserve about 1 tablespoon of your recipe water before making the lye solution. Mix the 15 g honey into that reserved water until fluid, then blend the honey mixture into the oils immediately before adding your lye solution. The reserved water still counts toward the calculator's total liquid.
French green clay — only if doing the sage swirl. Pre-disperse the green clay in a little recipe oil before you start. At stable emulsion, pour about 20–25% of the batter into another container, hand-stir the green-clay slurry into that portion, then immediately swirl and pour. Don't stick-blend the colored portion.
Melt oils → add kaolin → add oatmeal → add diluted honey → add EO blend → add lye → blend just to emulsion → split/color a small portion → swirl → pour.
  • Created:05/09/2026
  • Last Updated:05/09/2026
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Recipe Totals

Liquid Required268.88 g
NaOH Weight at 99 % Purity 134.42 g
Oil Weight974.1 g
Fragrance Weight29.22 g
Super Fat6 %
Total Batch Weight1471.62 g
Lye Concentration33.33 %
Liquid : Lye Ratio2:1
Saturated : Unsaturated43:57

Recipe Properties

Property%Recommended
Bubbly Lather2214 - 46
Cleansing1312 - 22
Condition5244 - 69
Hardness4329 - 54
Longevity2825 - 50
Creamy Lather3716 - 48
Iodine5241 - 70
Ins156136 - 165

Fatty Acids %

Lauric10
Myristic4
Palmitic19
Stearic12
Ricinoleic9
Oleic36
Linoleic4
Linolenic0

Liquid and NaOH

Liquid Required268.88 g
NaOH Weight at 99 % Purity 134.42 g

Recipe Oils, Fats and Waxes

Oil%Grams
Lard, Pig Tallow (Manteca)40389.64
Olive Oil18175.34
Coconut Oil, 92 deg20194.82
Castor Oil1097.41
Kokum Butter329.22
Cocoa Butter987.67
Total100974.1

Custom Additives

Add with the liquid
Sodium Lactate10 g10 g
Add with the Fats
Honey15 g15 g
Oatmeal20 g20 g
Kaolin Clay10 g10 g
Add at trace
Green Clay10 g10 g

Liquids

Fragrances(3% of oil weight)

Lavender0 9 g
Orange Essential Oil0 2.7 g
Cedarwood0 10.5 g
Rosemary0 6 g
Tea Tree0 1.25 g
Total0 null29.45 g

Additional Ingredients

Graph: Recipe Properties %

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  • Cleansing
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Graph: Recipe Properties %

Graph: Fatty Acids %

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Graph: Fatty Acids %

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