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Whipped Soap Base

Notes:
Melt the oils together in a large (non-aluminum) heavy bottomed pot over medium heat or crockpot.
Weigh out the water into a large, dishwasher safe jug.
Weigh out the KOH carefully into a small container. Weigh out the NaOH carefully into another small container. Add one type of lye to the water, swirling it gently to dissolve it. Once the first has dissolved, add the other and swirl to combine. The lye water will bubble and steam—avoid inhaling the emissions. Because both NaOH and KOH are strong bases they won’t react with one another, but you still shouldn’t inhale the gasses
Once the oils have melted, turn the heat down to low (2/10 or so) and add the lye water. No need to worry about matching temperatures here!
Get out your immersion blender and start blending to reach trace—this will take quite some time. After 20–30 minutes of stirring and blending, you will eventually end up with something the texture of pudding or applesauce. At this point, switch out the emulsion blender for a flexible spatula—we have achieved trace and are now cooking the paste.
Stir as the mixture continues to cook. There are a lot of cooking stages that you can apparently witness, but all I saw using this hot processed method was runny mashed potatoes to thick mashed potatoes to a less clumpy creamed butter like paste (no translucent vaseline stage here). With cream soap we are looking for a sort of lumpy/dry mashed potato stage after the creamed butter stage. Once you’re there, do a zap test to confirm it’s done (aka touch a small amount of the past [let it cool first!] to your tongue—it shouldn’t “zap”).
You’ll want to store most of the paste to dilute as needed—mason jars are great for that.
  • Created:26/03/2020
  • Last Updated:26/03/2020
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Recipe Totals

Liquid Required169.18 g
NaOH Weight at 99 % Purity 35.2 g
KOH Weight at 100 % Purity 49.39 g
Lye Weight84.59 g
Oil Weight500 g
Fragrance Weight15 g
Super Fat5 %
Total Batch Weight768.77 g
NaOH / KOH Ratio50 % / 50 %
Lye Concentration33.33 %
Liquid : Lye Ratio2:1
Saturated : Unsaturated40:60

Recipe Properties

Property%Recommended
Bubbly Lather2514 - 46
Cleansing2012 - 22
Condition5744 - 69
Hardness4029 - 54
Longevity2025 - 50
Creamy Lather2516 - 48
Iodine5941 - 70
Ins152136 - 165

Fatty Acids %

Lauric14
Myristic6
Palmitic11
Stearic9
Ricinoleic5
Oleic44
Linoleic8
Linolenic1

Liquid and NaOH, KOH

Liquid Required169.18 g
NaOH Weight at 99 % Purity 35.2 g
KOH Weight at 100 % Purity 49.39 g
Lye Weight84.59 g

Recipe Oils, Fats and Waxes

Oil%Grams
Olive Oil50250
Coconut Oil, 76 deg30150
Shea Butter1575
Castor Oil525
Total100500

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Graph: Recipe Properties %

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Graph: Fatty Acids %

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Graph: Fatty Acids %

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