Teach Soap

I am fairly new to CP soaping and I have a few questions.

When superfatting do you have to add the supperfatting oils at trace or can you add them before adding the lye? I usually superfat with Castor Oil.

I would also like to play around with some powdered items - goats milk powder, honey powder and possibly even powdered silk amino acids. When should those items be added? Is adding these ingredients even worth the extra expense? Do they need to be taken into consideration when calculating lye or are they considered superfats??

Thanks so much ladies, I have learned SO much from this forum already!!

Carla

Add everything up front. The lye is still very active at trace and it will take whatever it wants. There is no guarantee that any oil or butter you add at trace will end up as your superfat.

I would make a slurry with your goat's milk powder and a small amount of water. Add it to your cooled off oils right before you add your lye water. Some people do add this at trace. I find it makes no difference. Dissolve your honey powder in some water first, so it's not grainy. Add it at anytime. Powdered silk amino acids can be added to your lye water. It seems to make the soap more "silky".
None of these are superfats. They are additions, but they are not calculated in a soap calc.

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Irena
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Thank you so much Soapbuddy!

I asked because I want to add everything before Trace if I can....if I have to add after trace it starts thickening up on me and I get annoyed and I worry that I haven't mixed everything in throughly sometimes as well. So I could add my FO before Trace as well I assume?

I have used these powders before and sometimes get DOS and I'd really like to make it stop, lol! Could any of these powders contribute to DOS?

Carla

You use Yogurt Powder??

You add sugar?? Do you dissolve the sugar first?? How interesting!! And how much do you add per pound? Is that considered just an additive as well??

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Irena
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Linda
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