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Recipe Help - nice gentle, hard bar needs more lather

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cleanjean

Post subject: Recipe Help - nice gentle, hard bar needs more lather

Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:07 pm

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This is my very first post; I'm a newbee! Please check out the recipe below. It's from my Country Living - Handmade Soap book ("Basic Recipe Four"). I really love the hardness of this soap, but I just want to give it more lather without taking away from the hardness. I'd like to use castor oil because of its nice bubbles and mildness. Any suggestions on an appropriate amount of castor oil to start with? (I will, of course, be re-calculating the lye/water amounts.) The lather from this recipe is creamy, and it's mild enough for the face; however, I'd like to get more lather for use as a body soap. Thanks!

(14 oz. water
5 oz. lye)

6 oz. beeswax
4 oz. coconut oil
2 oz. palm oil
28 oz. olive oil

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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:03 pm

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It has way too much beeswax and no castor for bubbles. I would go for maybe 1/2 oz. of beeswax and up your coconut. Don't forget to run this through a lye calculator.

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