Teach Soap

I made an error mixing up a batch this weekend. I thought the castor oil was avocado oil and accidentally made a soap that is 50% castor oil. Does anyone know if that's safe? I usually use castor at 5% for the bubbles and lathering properties bc it seems like I've read that castor is not necessarily healthy at higher concentrations bc of the ricin.

Anybody have any thoughts on if I need to throw out the batch of soap since it's 50% castor? Or will it be fine?

Thanks in advance ya'll...

It will be safe. A lot of shampoo bars use higher % of castor.
Ricin is part of the waste “mash” produced when castor oil is made. It's not in the oil itself.

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Linda
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With that much castor oil, the soap will be soft. Did you recalculate the recipe to see how much your soap is superfatted?

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Irena
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Thnx ljm, & SB yes I did re-run it thru the lye calculator. The new recipe needed another ounce almost of lye, so since it was superfatted @ 10% i figured I had some leeway AND i added quite a few extra ounces of oil during measurements to be sure (since i wasn't going to remix the lye solution).
I added a few grinds of (pink Himalayan) salt crystals and clay for coloring. SB, you are right it IS soft i noticed when i cut it into bars after the 2nd night, like usual. Oh, and i forgot to take it out of the blankets so it gelled up on me to 150 degrees before I remembered. AND i added the EOs too late so i mixed too hard trying to get them in and it saponified waaaayyyyy too much before i could get it poured & smoothed into the loafs properly. When i noticed the castor mistake i added lard instead of avocado butter, and the Pink Grapefruit EO is pretty cheap and i read goes bad quickly so i needed2hurry up'n use it anyway, i figured.

Ha ha i messed this loaf up every way you can mess one up and not have to throw it out. I hope. I made a 25% castor loaf once previously before i read that castor at high concentrations isn't safe, but i used it all up to no ill effect. Seemed fine to me.

Thanx you guys...