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Large Base Soaps For Handmilling If you are new to making soap, please take time to read ( Soapmaking Equipment and Instructions ) Click to go to instructions. This will help you know the equipment needed to make your soap and how you can make this wonderful healthful soap for your family and friends. If you are in need of oils to make your first soap or would like to order our Soapmaking Kit, you can find them and many other supplies listed here on our site. TLC's Soap and Sundries Making Supplies. Please take time to read this page and all instructions on the Methods of Handmilling page before processing if you have never made a Hand Milled soap or need help in processing if you are having problems with the process. The formulas below have different superfatting levels. If you wish to only add a tiny amount of oil, say 1/2 tsp. of oil per lb. of soap base to your soaps when melting them, use the formulas with the larger amount of superfatting and you can add a bit of Vegetable Glycerin to help it melt. And with the formulas that are at the higher superfatting level you can use as is and only add a little water and/or milk and/or Vegetable Glycerin when melting it to add your aroma. If you wish to add a larger amount of oil to your soaps when melting them to increase the superfatting, then use the formula with the smaller amount of superfatting. When melting the soap add 1 to 2 tsp. or so of an oil or butter to a lb. of soap and a bit of Vegetable Glycerin when melting the soap. Remember that Handmilled soap will not be pourable because it does not have any synthetic solvents in it. It will be glopable in consistency.  Cocoa/Shea Butter Base #1 Large Size Batch 10 oz. Castor Oil 8 oz. Cocoa Butter 6 oz. Shea Butter 10 oz. Coconut Oil 10 oz. Palm Kernel 48 oz. Olive Oil 48 oz. Shortening 48 oz. Lard, Tallow or Palm Oil 25 oz. Lye (approx 5% superfatting) OR 26 oz. Lye (approx 2% superfatting) 62 oz. water (33% water for reduced liquid) NOTE: You can use full water or split by using 1/2 milk and 1/2 water adding the lye only to the water phase of the process. ******** Cocoa/Shea Butter Olay Base #2 Medium size batch 5 oz. Castor Oil 3 oz. Shea Butter 4 oz. Cocoa Butter 10 oz. Palm Kernel Oil or Coconut Oil 24 oz. Lard, Tallow or Palm Oil 48 oz. Olive Oil 12.50 oz. Lye Sodium Hydroxide (approx 5% superfatting) OR 12.88 oz. Lye Sodium Hydroxide (approx 2% superfatting) 31 oz. water (33% water for reduced liquid) NOTE: You can use full water or split by using 1/2 milk and 1/2 water adding the lye only to the water phase of the process. ******** A basic soap base Medium size batch 48 oz. Lard, Tallow or Palm Oil 24 oz. Olive Oil 22 oz. Palm Kernel Oil or Coconut Oil 13 oz. Lye Sodium Hydroxide (approx 5% superfatting) OR 13.50 oz. Lye Sodium Hydroxide (approx 2% superfatting) 31 oz. water (33% water for reduced liquid) NOTE: You can use full water or split by using 1/2 milk and 1/2 water adding the lye only to the water phase of the process. You can then add 8 oz. of oil into the whole batch as you are melting it to make it at about 5% superfatting. The formula is about 16 lbs. of soap if you use the full water amount of 70 oz. and I used 1/2 oz. of oil per lb. of soap to come to the 8 oz of oils used to make it 5% superfatted. If you use Coconut as the oil to get the superfatting into a higher range, you will get about 6% superfatting with it. And remember that adding the Coconut this way will not add to the lather of the soap, only the superfatting level and is not drying to the skin when added this way. Other than that you can use any of the oils below or other oils that you might want. Use them as one or a mixed oil, but only use the amount needed to make up the amount you need to superfat for each lb. of soap that you use. So if you are only going to melt down 2 lbs of the soap, then you will use 1/2 oz of oil x 2 = 1 oz of oil. So remember the 1/2 oz of oil for each lb of lightly superfatted finished soap base is what you will need to calculate. These are some oils that you can use to superfat with. Avocado, Apricot Kernel, Cocoa Butter, Shea Butter, Sweet Almond, Sesame Oil, Tallow, Neem Oil, Canola, Olive, Lard, Palm Oil, Wheat Germ. How did I figure the 8 oz. of oil you ask? Well lets see if I can tell you how. I knew when I was making my base that I wanted it to have very little superfatting in the base soap, so that I could add that later in the handmilling process. So what I did was take all the oils that were in the formula, their sap values and figure up for a 1% superfatted soap. I then started calculating using only Olive at first, in 2 oz. increments, increasing the total oils by 2 oz. each time. Watching to see when it got close to the amount of lye that I used for the 1% superfatted soap in the 5% superfatting range. So when approximately 26 oz. of lye showed up in the 5% superfatting range, I knew that the 8 oz. of oil that it took me to get there would work to bring the soap to about 5% superfatting range. Clear as mud yet? I used the oils listed above in combo and alone to see how they would work in balancing the formula to the 5% superfatting range. They all worked very well in combo and alone. I know this is confusing and I will try and explain it better when I can. If you have not made soap yet, this will be a hard formula to work with. Would be better to make several batches before attempting this one. Created By Rita Scheu TLC Soaps & Sundries http://www.tlcsoaps.com |
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