Teach Soap

Recently I posted a guestion about my base recipe and was told that the castor that I was using at the end of my mix to superfat my soap amounted to nothing in the big picture and that I should of just added it to all of my oils in the beginning due to the face that saponification takes no prisoners. What then is a true way to superfat my batch of soap to have the superfatting relevant? Is rebatching the only way to actually superfat a soap? I really do not want to rebatch to get the benifits of a superfated soap.
Thanks,
SweetP

For CP soap, the lye doesn't discriminate between your oils or butters. Even if you add an oil or butter at trace, there is no 100% guarantee that it will end up as your superfat. The only way for a true superfat is to HP the soap and add your oil after the cook.

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

Thanks SoapBuddy Guess I'll have to dust off the old crock pot and try a batch out. So is it safe to say then that there is no such thing as a superfatted CP soap?
SweetP

Superfatted soap just means that there is extra oil or butter in the final soap, so it's not lye heavy. If the recipe says that it's superfatted at 7%, it is, but you won't know with which oils or butters, unless you do it as HP and add the so called "superfatting" oil or butter after the cook.

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

It's true. There is no such thing as superfatting your soap unless you hot process it. I have been hot soaping for about 14 years now and you can do so much more with ingredients than cold process. I make soap for a Manuka Honey importer and the only way that the scent can be saved is to hot process it. Color is also an issue for cp. I made a lime soap with crushed lime leaves and lime essential oil and it looked amazing. You could not do that with cp.

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