Teach Soap

What is everyone's favorite oils to make cold process soaps? I have just started to make cp soap and have used coconut oil, canola oil, olive oil and walnut oil.

Olive oil, Castor oil, Coconut oil, Beef Tallow, Avocado oil (but not too much and not too often)

Pretty much the same as Possum. I no longer use canola as it gives me DOS and walnut oil has a short shelf life.

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Irena
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My favorite oils are olive,coconut oil,and sustainable n able palm oil at times I v add almond oil,castor, avocado oil just s t for fun it makes a different kind of some soap.it depends on what you want to achieve

Olive, coconut, lard and castor oil are my base. Then I will usually add a bit of a butter and sweet almond or avocado oil.
I have had a lot of fun over the past year trying many recipes but have finally narrowed it down to one basic recipe that I use. Have fun experimenting.

MaryLou

Thanks for all your answers! I made a shapoo and shaving soap and found that the recipe makes a smooth soap. My bars turned out so pretty. And it was my first time using palm oil/castor oil so I might just keep using palm oil. I have used olive, coconut, canola and sunflower or safflower oils. It made a pretty soap also, but it hasn't been consistent. Sometimes it seems to have lumps in it or it's smooth when poured. So I'm still looking for a true favorite recipe.

(Although, the 95% olive and 5% castor oil recipe Irene gave me made a pretty loaf.)


Thank you!

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Shanon
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My faves are olive, coconut, shea, castor and maybe palm, depending on my mood

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My favorites are olive, coconut, and avocado. I have tried sunflower but didn't have good results. I occasionally will add a butter to it but not very often.

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Haven

I tried a recipe using coconut, sunflower, canola and 5% superfat with walnut oil. It gave a brilliant white base, but after 5 weeks it's still a little soft. I had these oils and lye and wanted to try my own recipe. I won't use them all again because of it though.

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Irena
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My base recipe has olive, coconut, palm, shea, avocado and castor. I'll swap out some of the fine oils and also reduce/increase olive, palm and coconut, depending on what I have on hand. I do try to look for the lightest colored olive I can find, though I made a castile out of organic OO and it cured light green, but once its been used a couple times is brilliant white.

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Logansama aka Belinda
Nor Cal

My recipe uses coconut, palm, olive, canola, safflower, and grapeseed. Beautiful, lathery, hard bars every time.

Hi
My favourite oils to use : olive, coconut, canola, castor, sunflower, grapeseed...but I've a made a great batch with these oils together - avocado oil, canola, peanut, castor, olive and coconut

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My go-to blend is Olive, Coconut, Avocado, and Rice Bran. I've found a balance that I really like that turns out a beautifully smooth soap with a rich, stable lather.

It makes a rather greenish soap though, so I have to use quite a bit of colorant to get the aesthetic results I want.