Teach Soap

Hello. I have been trying to create some of my own recipes using soap calc. I've made several different batches of soap that have come out of the mold looking and smelling wonderful, but I have found that the bars are drying to my skin and I dont understand why. I've tried different ingredients like babassu oil instead of coconut oil to see if that makes any difference and it doesn't really.
My latest recipe contains coconut oil (24%), olive oil(27%), shea butter(8%), cocoa butter(13%), castor oil(2%), and palm oil (24%) . It is superfated at 7%.
Here are the soap calc numbers
Hardness 48
Cleansing 17
Conditioning 49
bubbly 18
creamy 33
iodine 49
INS 161

This recipe seems a bit drying ..I'd appreciate some input if anyone has any ideas..
I'm considering bumping up the conditioning and bubbly level on this batch...maybe like 55 conditioning and 23 bubbly...with the use of castor oil and more olive oil. I read somewhere that a 41 hardness should be hard enough...Is that true?? If not could I just use sodium lactate to get the hardness?
Thank you all so much....

You should lower the coconut oil percent. Anything over 20% can be drying if you have sensitive skin. You can raise the percent of some of the other oils but I would keep castor at no higher than 10%.

I would lower the coconut oil and add the difference to your olive oil. You also have a lot of shea butter and cocoa butter in there. I would lower that as well.

Since everyone's skin is different, take those numbers with a grain of salt.

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thank you both so much for the advice..I'm going to try your suggestions Thank you