Superfatting liquid soap?

I've become interested in making liquid soap at home and purchased "Making Natural Liquid Soap" by Catherine Failor. But I don't like her recipes for two reasons. First, nearly all of her recipes call for coconut oil, and I'm allergic. Second, because she emphasizes crystal-clarity in liquid soap (which I could personally care less about), all her recipes are formulated with a 10% lye excess, to be neutralized later. I have dry skin; I don't want to use a soap with no superfatting! But she focuses so much on having clear soap that none of her recipes mention how to do it. I don't care if my soap is cloudy; I want it to be good to my skin. Any suggestions?

Superfatting liquid soap?
Take your soap recipe to an online lye calculator,


there is a calculator at www.soapcalc.com there is also one at www.thesage.com ... the sage calculator is a little less intimidating .... be sure to enter the type of lye as KOH, not NaOH .... on the sage calculator, when you hit the caculate recipe button at the bottom of the page, it will take you to the next page showing oil percentages and lye concentrations to choose from... choose anywhere from 1% to 3 % and even though you are not concerned with clarity... depending on oils you use, you should be able to get some clarity even at that %. These are just 2 calculators ... there are several others out there you can choose from :o)


Good luck.
Reply:This site looks to have a broad range of soap types. The silk soap has caught my eye.


http://www.teachsoap.com/





Another site with a lot of variety:


http://www.cranberrylane.com/recipes.htm





fyi.. i got 207,000 hits when i googled "soap making recipes"


lot of info out there.
Reply:Coconut oil is used in most soap recipes because it makes the soaps cleansing with nice lather and helps make a hard bar.





It sounds to me like you really need to do more research first, figure out which oils you want to use and make your own recipe on a lye calculator. Then follow the instructions for making a liquid soap. This kind of information is all over the net these days.


here are some good websites to help get you started.





http://recipes.herbalsoapsbyrj.com/tutor...





http://www.colebrothers.com/soapcalc/rec...





http://www.millersoap.com/castile.html#A...


You should run this recipe through a lye calculator, using a superfat of 5 % as that is the normal range for superfatting soaps. Also make it without the salt, salt soaps are great but not as a liquid soap.





This calculator is as simple as they get.


http://www.brambleberry.com/lye_calc_1.p...





This one is more complicated but also offers more information about the qualities your soap will have.


http://www.soapcalc.com/calc/soapcalcWP....








Rachel
Reply:check out this site: she used 100% olive oil to make hers! Good luck!





http://www.greensense.com/soap_q_a.htm