Teach Soap

Either one will increase lather due to natural sugar content. I would not use both at the same time. With that much soybean oil, you could end up with a soft soap. You can add sugar to your lye water AFTER it has cooled down. I would dissolve the honey with a little bit of water and add it as soon as your lye and oils are combined.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

Thanks, Soapbuddy! I'll take your advice.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

Update: As it turns out, my beloved used the last of the honey ages ago without telling me, so there wasn't any when I went to get it for my soap batch today. Oh, well. At least the soap looks pretty. Creamy ivory colored, in its USPS Flat Rate mold (and some overflow that I quickly dumped into an Apple mouse box that I lined weeks ago and forgot about). We'll see how it works. If it works.

A similar batch (only similar: no scent or colorant, as per usual, but this time to the soybean and coconut oil, I added 15% castor oil as well) that I made Monday was finally ready to unmold today. Sort of. The outside of it was a bit oily, and the soap is less opaque than I'm used to seeing. Is this from the castor oil, which I've never used before, or...? I don't even know what else it might be. Oh, well. It passed the zap test, so it'll be soap when it's done.

Castor oil is a soft oil. It does add lather, but at higher % it makes the soap soft.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.