While just a plain everyday bar of soap can be luxurious most people equate luxury with oils like shea butter cocoa butter jojoba and some of the other liquid oils.
Cocoa butter liquid soap recipe.
Gentle cocoa butter easy liquid soap paste by the ultimate guide to hot process soap high temperature liquid soap htls the education and experience gained from reading the ultimate guide to hot process soap can be applied to all different types of soap making including cold process transparent and liquid soap making.
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Some examples of nourishing soft oils in a soap recipe are high oleic sunflower oil high oleic safflower oil olive oil canola oil almond oil apricot kernel oil and avocado oil.
Let s start with the ingredients.
We re going to start by learning how to formulate a liquid soap recipe.
As usual i worked in 1 gram increments so 1 5 is 1 gram cocoa butter 5.
Bring a moment of joy to your day with softsoap foaming hand soap whipped cocoa butter.
Because cocoa butter melts about 30 c cooler than beeswax i decided to run this experiment a bit differently than my wax experiments.
Your bar will also have creamy bubbles.
That is i did four parts cocoa butter to one part liquid oil all the way up to one part cocoa butter and five parts liquid oil.
Even at 7 of your total recipe you will feel the difference in your finished bar.
These are the 5 oils i use most of the time that create a wonderfully thick liquid soap.
If you want an easy soap project containing shea butter purchase a shea butter melt and pour soap base from a soap making supply company.
Palm oil adds body can cloud soap can sub with cocoa butter shea butter mango butter lard or tallow.
On the other hand conditioning hard oils are oils and butters such as palm oil cocoa butter lard tallow kokum butter illipe butter sal butter mango butter and shea butter.
It already has the fat within the original recipe and the step involving lye has been done for you.
The benefits of adding cocoa butter to your soap recipe.
To use cocoa butter well in your recipes save the melted cocoa butter until your soap is at the trace stage and then add it to your soap.
Good for the earth and body.