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I'm trying to find a good base recipe for a range of soaps and came up with this recipe for a test batch:

Beeswax 18 g (3%)
Castor Oil 30 g (5%)
Coconut oil 90 g (15%)
Jojoba Oil 12 g (2%)
Olive Oil 240 g (40%)
Rice Bran Oil 210 g (35%)

Sodium Hydroxide 76 g
Water 198 g

Superfatted at 7%

However, a vegan friend of mine has pointed out that most vegans won't buy anything with honey of beeswax included in the recipe, so I'm looking for an alternative to use as a hardening agent instead of the beeswax. I'm also not using Palm Oil or Palm Kernel Butter because of the environmental impact of the way it's farmed. Any suggestions from more experienced soapers would be welcome.

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You can add 1 teaspoon of salt PPO to your lye solution to help make the bar harder, or you can use sodium lactate. Another suggestion would be to add a hard butter like shea or cocoa butter at 5-10%.

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You can replace the beeswax for candelila or carnauba wax. Also soy wax might be a choice for you.

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75 gms of lye will make this recipe is 9% superfat.
I would go 77 grams of lye for a 7% superfat.
Here is a soap calc that has carnauba in it. https://www.thesage.com/calcs/LyeCalc.html

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Just a quick question for interests sake - would the INCI name for saponified Carnauba wax be Sodium Carnaubate or Sodium Carnauba Waxate?

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