Teach Soap

Could someone please help clarify the meaning of 'soft / softness' when talking about CP Soap Bars. I've run out of Olive Oil here, but would like to try another soap batch today, and was looking to substitute the Olive Oil with the Rice Bran oil I have here. The Soap Calculator however says that with my recipe (Rice Bran 35%, Caster 10%, Coconut 20% and Palm Oil 35%) will make a very 'soft' bar.

Now for me, when I think of soft, I think of my pillow, marshmellows, soft serve ice-cream. Physically soft to touch. Is that the same meaning here? Or do they mean a soft bar in that it won't last very long? That upon sitting in the shower and using, it will 'wash away' very quickly?

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Soft like butter when you try to get it out of your mold. 10% castor is too much. I would not go above 5%.

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Irena
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Oh ok... so soft 'physically' then?

And interesting about not going above 5% Castor. All the recipe's I've been reading previously used 10% castor heh. I will make that change though and see how I go.

The recipe I have at the moment (although I'm thinking it will just be easier to go up the shops and buy more lard/olive oil) says that my Iodine level is 88, and anything above 70 will make the bar 'too soft'. That means too hard to get out of the mold, yes? What about after a couple days, weeks, months? Does it always remain soft? Or does it harden up a bit?

(Not planning on using that recipe now, just trying to get my head around the meaning of soft fully)

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Soft physically, yes. I take some of those values with a grain of salt. Castile (100% olive oil) soap looks terrible on paper, yet makes good soap. According to soap calc olive is a "soft" oil. It isn't.

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Irena
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Yeah on the calculator it's a soft soap, but when I read the descriptions it says 'despite that, it makes a hard soap'...

I ended up picking up some Olive oil and more Lard while I was out anyway hehe.

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