shea and coco wash
Recipe Instructions
- Melt oils and butters in crockpot
- Pour glycerin into Potassium hydroxide crystals and proceed to dissolve. Heat is required until solution is crystal clear
- Pour glycerin solution into oils and stick blend till bubbles begin to fly from the soap mix (6 minutes of stick blending) indicating first saponification stage has been reached.
- Cover pot and leave for 6 hours or more to get to paste stage where the soap will be firm but a scoop-able sticky paste.
- Phenolphthalein test soap and leave to sit for longer if needed
Dilution
- 100% paste (500g paste)
- 41.3% water which is 0.413 x grams of paste eg 0.413x 500=206.5 grams
- 3% stearic acid which is 3/100x500=15 grams
- 0.15% polysorbate 80 which is 0.15/100x500=0.75 grams
- 1.96% EDTA which is 1.96/100x500=9.8 grams (EDTA is in a 39% solution, 69% water:39%EDTA)
- Put ingredients in a canning jar type situation with the liquid portion being preheated and allow to heat in the water bath.
- When soap is amber with some undissolved soft paste, use the stick blender to break them up. If undissolved paste is firm then allow soap to cook some more.
- Stick blending causes soap to turn opaque, let it sit undisturbed till it clears out.
- If soap still has foam after 12 hours check for undissolved paste, add a small amount of warm water and let it cool down.
- Over the space of 24 hours, soap will transform into the finished opaque creaminess.
Superfatting Rose hip seed oil at (2.052% separate from the original 3% at beginning of recipe)
- Weight of diluted soap eg 700 gx2.052%= 14g of rosehip seed oil
- PS80 is gotten by 14x3%=0.42 g to solubilize into the soap.
- Mix the rosehip oil with the PS80 and stir into the soap
Scent
0.5% perfume x weight of soap in bottle
mix perfume with equal amount of PS80 and mix into soap.
Enjoy!
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Soap Properties
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INS: 160.55 (ideal)
iodine: 47.1 (ideal)
Calculated Values for Oils and Preferences
| Superfat % | 3% |
| Saturated | 0.44 Pound(s) |
| Mono-Unsaturated | 0.47 Pound(s) |
| Poly-Unsaturated | 0.04 Pound(s) |
| Saturated:Unsaturated Ratio | 53.74:46.26 |
| Lye concentration | 100% |
| Weight Unit | Pound(s) |
| Soap type | solid |
Fatty Acid Profile
| Oleic | 20.25% |
| Linoleic | 3.56% |
| Linolenic | 0% |
| Ricinoleic | 27% |
| Lauric | 17.15% |
| Myristic | 6.65% |
| Palmitic | 9.88% |
| Stearic | 10.05% |
Recommended Additive Amounts
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For Advanced Soapmakers
| Sodium Lactate (60%)
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| Recommended Essential/Fragrance Oil | 0.01 Pound(s) | ||||||
| Ascorbic Acid
| 0.01 Pound(s) | ||||||
| Extra Lye to Neutralize Ascorbic Acid for A.A. | KOH: 0 Pound(s) | ||||||
| Lactic Acid
| 0.01 Pound(s) | ||||||
| Extra Lye to Neutralize Lactic Acid for L.A. | KOH: 0.01 Pound(s) | ||||||
| Recommended Liquid Crothix
| 0.02 - 0.15 Pound(s) | ||||||
| Tetrasodium EDTA
| 0.01 Pound(s) | ||||||
| Sodium Citrate
| 0.01 - 0.04 Pound(s) | ||||||
| Potassium Citrate
| 0.02 - 0.05 Pound(s) | ||||||
| Rosemary Oleoresin (ROE)
| 0 - 0 Pound(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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