Teach Soap

I live in a part of the world where the air is extremely dry year-round. I'm talking less than 20% relative humidity. I run 5 humidifiers in my house full time, and am lucky to get to 40%.
So the soap I have been successfully selling for years and years is very gentle on dry skin.

I am soon moving to the opposite climate - very hot and very very humid year round - a tropical island where I was born.
I'd like to continue making, and hopefully selling (when it and I are ready) soap, but I know I need to change my formula.

My question is for those of you in hot AND humid climates: Are there any ingredients you emphasize or avoid due to the weather?

For example - I use quite a high percentage of castor oil in my current recipe - and my bars are nice and hard and not sticky at all. I assume castor is pretty much a no-no in a tropical region.

So...more coconut oil? Clean the sweat off those tropical bodies?

I live in the desert with next to no humidity. In humid climates you would need a dehumidifier and even then some soaps will sweat. Adding a higher amount of coconut oil could make the soap drying. I don't go above 20%.

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Irena
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NC is pretty humid in the summer and fall. I have learned that soaps with avocado oil can sometimes stay softer than usual so I try not to use it above 5-10% in the summer. Also, the 100% coconut oil bars I made really sweat in the humidity, both with salt and without salt in them. They were normal in the spring, but the craft fairs I attended at the end of summer and early fall were very humid and the condensation built up on those bars so much it ran off of them and they were sitting in puddles of water.