Any soapers on here? I just made a simple batch of coconut oil soap to use during winter when my skin is most dry and I can't find any soap I really like commercially. So far it has turned out nice and is now curing for about six weeks.
I made soap!
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Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble! I can just see you in your back yard, standing over a cauldron, stirring with a paddle!
I'm glad your soap has turned out good. My mom talked about when my grandmother made soap in the "witch's pot" in their back yard.
Enjoy it! Soap making is quite fun, isn`t?
Well, made a few batches myself and enjoyed making it but didn`t care much for the soap.
I did the cold process method emulsifying the soap with a stick blender and calculated to some excess fat content but always found the outcome totally inferior to commercial soap. It always turned mushy when left wet and wasn`t very mild at all.
One time I decided to melt the soap after curing in boiling water again and added salt to wash all impurities like residual lye out similar as the commercial soap industry would do.
Didn`t know how to separate the glycerin from that dirty brine to put it back into the soap again like industry would do but can tell you this was by far the best self made soap I ever made.
Then I lost interest in this hobby again. Soap and hard water just don`t mix well.
Found the residual soap scum much more drying to skin as most shower gels. Not to mention the additional bathroom cleaning that is required too.
But in soft water your experience might be much better than mine.
Did you add scent and color to it?
Well, made a few batches myself and enjoyed making it but didn`t care much for the soap.
I did the cold process method emulsifying the soap with a stick blender and calculated to some excess fat content but always found the outcome totally inferior to commercial soap. It always turned mushy when left wet and wasn`t very mild at all.
One time I decided to melt the soap after curing in boiling water again and added salt to wash all impurities like residual lye out similar as the commercial soap industry would do.
Didn`t know how to separate the glycerin from that dirty brine to put it back into the soap again like industry would do but can tell you this was by far the best self made soap I ever made.
Then I lost interest in this hobby again. Soap and hard water just don`t mix well.
Found the residual soap scum much more drying to skin as most shower gels. Not to mention the additional bathroom cleaning that is required too.
But in soft water your experience might be much better than mine.
Did you add scent and color to it?
My grandma used to make homemade soap in the 50’s and early 60’s when I was a kid. She used cooking fat and grease that she’d saved, rendered it down, strained out the impurities and mixed it with lye. Then she would pour it into shallow pans lined with wax paper and allow the soap to cool and harden and then cut it into bars. The soap was kinda light tan in color, harsh and was used for cleaning. I don’t recall if she scented it. She lived in the Richmond, Calif. which has very soft water so soap scum was probably not as much of a problem as it would be here in Sonoma county where our water is hard as hell.
Eddie
Eddie
I have the same problem in cold weather. This past winter I did an eBay search on "lanolin soap" and got some very good vintage lanolin soap sold by the defunct I. Magnin department store chain. It was great.
Soaps with a lot of coconut oil are very, very drying to my skin, sadly. Congrats on the project and I hope it works for you.
Soaps with a lot of coconut oil are very, very drying to my skin, sadly. Congrats on the project and I hope it works for you.
I de-molded the soap this morning and did the zap test and I'm happy to say it has all saponified. I still can't use it for six weeks or so. I left it natural white and unscented...it just smells like soap. I took some of the crumbs and used them to wash my hands and it lathered very well. It left a nice feel on my hands. It is coconut oil abundant so it won't be drying. There is also a recipe to make a coconut cleaning soap which would be too harsh for bathing. I don't intend to go soap crazy and start selling or anything. I may gift some later and put lavender oil in it. Eventually I may do some oatmeal soap. I have a recipe that uses coconut and castor oils that should be very moisturizing and may try that next.
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To answer your question..yes there are other soapers here. (Me)
There was another here ((Mike) but don’t know if he’s still around.
My beginning, years ago, had to do with an old man I met that had worked for White King Soap Co in S California.
For some reason I was interested in the organic chemistry involved in soap making. Fatty acid makeup’s of various fats and oils, and their effects on final product produced ect.
It’s true that 100% coconut oil used for soap can be drying. 20% S.P is usually recommend for use on skin. But that can pose a problem with DOS’s later as they age.
You’l get a better product for your dry skin if you find a mix of other fats and oils to use along with your Coconut oil.
In the end..real soap can be drying and will never cure out to be PH balanced
(or acidic enough) for use on facial skin.
Have you tried a true Castile or Bastile soap? They’re about as mild as you can get.
To answer your question..yes there are other soapers here. (Me)
There was another here ((Mike) but don’t know if he’s still around.
My beginning, years ago, had to do with an old man I met that had worked for White King Soap Co in S California.
For some reason I was interested in the organic chemistry involved in soap making. Fatty acid makeup’s of various fats and oils, and their effects on final product produced ect.
It’s true that 100% coconut oil used for soap can be drying. 20% S.P is usually recommend for use on skin. But that can pose a problem with DOS’s later as they age.
You’l get a better product for your dry skin if you find a mix of other fats and oils to use along with your Coconut oil.
In the end..real soap can be drying and will never cure out to be PH balanced
(or acidic enough) for use on facial skin.
Have you tried a true Castile or Bastile soap? They’re about as mild as you can get.
