Teach Soap

Hi all. I'm hoping someone will take pity on me and help me out here. I'm 27 years old and still get mad breakouts on my face. When I switched to "real" soap it helped for a little bit, but lately I'm back where I started. I use my own soaps on my face but they're not specially formulated for breakout-prone skin and aren't really helping.

I saw the recipe posted on the main teachsoap page, however I don't have some of the oils and would like to try something with what I have. I have some clays (french green, white, kelp and kaolin) that I would like to add in. I would like to make an unscented bar. Can someone help me with a recipe? Even if you just point me in the right direction with oils? I have the basics: olive, castor, palm, coconut, sunflower, grapeseed, soybean. I even have some sweet almond, jojoba and apricot kernel.

If you kindly help me I swear that I will never try to sell it as my own. I tried looking around the interweb for recipes but no such luck.

Thanks in advance,
Sharon

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Try this:

5 oz. Castor
15 oz. olive
10 oz. coconut
15 oz. palm
15 oz. soybean

Run it through a lye calculator. If you want to make a smaller recipe, halve it and run it through a lye calculator. I would add french green clay to this as it's a drying clay. Superfat at around 5-7%. I would also add some Lavender and Tea Tree oil.

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

I do an acne soap for my kids with a similar recipe to soapbuddy's.

I add some additives, though, that I can share. I do a 45 oz batch.

Charcoal--1/2 TBL ppo
Multani Mitti (Sp)--a clay I get an a local indian grocery store in their beauty aisle. Or really, use any clay. 1 TBL
Bentonite clay--1 TBL ppo
1 oz Tea Tree

This sucker dries you out!!! My kids friends come over to steal the soap. One word of caution--do not, do not, do not get any soap in your eyes. Stings!

If you live in a bigger type of town, try the Indian grocery stores because they have a lot of different clays and powders that are great for skin, including Neem powder and such.

I make a soap bar that seems to work very well for acne. Although I don't claim any special properties or curative powers for my soap I use a Neem oil and Tea tree in the soap with clay and it seems to have a very positive effect on acne and other skin conditions.

All,

I very much appreciate the camaraderie in this forum and the tips you've all offered. I will have to try and find some of the additives that you mentioned.

I try to research each oil as much as possible but still don't quite understand how they work together as a 'team', so to speak. I've found that soaps that aren't so cleansing (like Proactiv) work well because they don't strip the skin of all oils. I noticed that the coconut oil is quite a big part of the bar soapbuddy offered- will it be too cleansing?

Thanks again to everyone!

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Just as long as I keep the coconut oil under 20% I haven't had any problems. Here is the breakdown:

Castor Oil 5ozs. 8.33%
Coconut Oil 10ozs. 16.67%
Olive Oil 15ozs. 25.00%
Palm Oil 15ozs. 25.00%
Soybean Oil 15ozs. 25.00%
Total Weight 60 ozs.

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

Soapbuddy I'm sure you know this, but you're a sweetheart! Thanks again to all of those who have posted and PM'ed!

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