1. Purple Lavender Soap with Aloe Vera (small batch) hot process 2/11/2025
Recipe Instructions
Needed Ingredients
Water + Lye
114 g Water
42.47 g 100% Purity NaOH
Oils
100 g Olive Oil - All Grades
100 g Sunflower Seed Oil
100 g Coconut Oil - All Grades except Virgin
Additives + Additional Ingredients
7g lavender essential oil
.25 teaspoon organic purple colourant
Also added the lavender essential oil too early (nerves), and cooked it out, so I remelted and re-added it again
Scraped out the contents of one finger of a living natural aloe vera plant
Made 4 small bars - hot process method. It doesn't retain the fragrance, unfortunately.
1|1|1; Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Sunflower Oil, Aloe Vera, lavender Mica, Lavendar essential oil
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Soap Properties
Highlighted gray ranges represent recommended ranges for each property.
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INS: 142 (ideal)
iodine: 76 (high)
Calculated Values for Oils and Preferences
| Superfat % | 5% |
| Saturated | 102.60 Gram(s) |
| Mono-Unsaturated | 95.30 Gram(s) |
| Poly-Unsaturated | 82.70 Gram(s) |
| Saturated:Unsaturated Ratio | 63.44:36.56 |
| Lye concentration | 100% |
| Weight Unit | Gram(s) |
| Soap type | solid |
Fatty Acid Profile
| Oleic | 31.77% |
| Linoleic | 27.23% |
| Linolenic | 0.33% |
| Ricinoleic | 0% |
| Lauric | 15.67% |
| Myristic | 6.23% |
| Palmitic | 8.73% |
| Stearic | 3.57% |
Recommended Additive Amounts
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For Advanced Soapmakers
| Sodium Lactate (60%)
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| Recommended Essential/Fragrance Oil | 13.13 Gram(s) | ||||||
| Ascorbic Acid
| 3 Gram(s) | ||||||
| Extra Lye to Neutralize Ascorbic Acid for A.A. | NaOH: 0.61 Gram(s) | ||||||
| Lactic Acid
| 2.25 Gram(s) | ||||||
| Extra Lye to Neutralize Lactic Acid for L.A. | NaOH: 1.33 Gram(s) | ||||||
| Tetrasodium EDTA
| 2.28 Gram(s) | ||||||
| Sodium Citrate
| 3.90 - 11.70 Gram(s) | ||||||
| Potassium Citrate
| 4.80 - 14.40 Gram(s) | ||||||
| Rosemary Oleoresin (ROE)
| 0.12 - 0.15 Gram(s) | ||||||
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Citric Acid Powder (anhydrous) |
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Extra Lye to Neutralize Citric Acid Powder for C.A. |
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