Teach Soap

Two questions:

1. When I run different salt bar recipes through SoapCalc, the soap quality numbers are just crazy, nowhere near the recommended INS of 140-165. Since salt bars need a high concentration of coconut oil, the cleansing number is very high. Can someone explain how adding salt changes the bar from super harsh to nice to use?

2. Why is lard good for laundry soap when its cleansing number is very low?

Just browsing but where did you add the salt in the soap calc--I have been leaving it out as I didn't know where to put it in the lye calc.

Thanks,

Lisa

Take the soap calc with a grain of salt. Some of my recipes don't look that great on paper, but they make a very nice soap. If you are making laundry soap, you can do all lard with a 0% superfat. No salt is needed.

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