As an alternative you can make your own olive oil soap without lye by using a ready made soap base.
Coconut oil soap recipe without lye.
Which is why i absolutely love this soap recipe.
If you re considering making soap definitely use extreme caution with unreacted lye and use a soap calculator to make sure you are using the correct ratio of water lye oils but don t be afraid of this age old process.
Rebatching soap involves grating and melting a pure soap adding colors herbs scents and other additives to make a unique soap and then pouring the mixture into soap molds to cure.
Coconut oil doesn t trace super quickly so you can use a 2 1 ratio of water to lye pretty reliably.
This batch while non traditional is predictable and reliable when it comes to soap recipes.
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How to make pure coconut oil soap for cleansing and laundry ingredients.
Something made with coconut or olive oil perhaps.
You can purchase olive oil based soap but many store bought soaps contain lye a strong alkaline caustic substance that can dry and irritate the skin.
Melt coconut oil and shea butter in a small pan on the stove until just melted and set aside.
Nowadays even basic bar soap is full of strange caustic chemicals and perfumes.
Because this soap is highly superfatted it can create a very dense lather when rubbed directly on skin.
You will need to use a digital scale for these measurements.
Making your own olive oil soap allows you to tailor it to your skin s needs.
The most often asked question on my soap recipes like my basic slowcooker soap or my charcoal bars is can i make soap without lye.
The organic soap base used for this recipe is made from glycerin that has been extracted from pure coconut oil and goat s milk.
However if you want to make your own soaps without having to work with lye you can use a melt and pour base or you can rebatch soap.
Raphaelle a soap recipe with instructions would take up a lot of space here so here s a link to a basic soap recipe with tea tree tea tree oil is antibacterial and may help with eczema but truthfully any handmade soap that doesn t contain all the chemicals found in commercial soaps is better for eczema.
If you want to learn how to make soap with coconut oil without handling lye rebatch a coconut bar made by someone else.
I don t need any of that.
When you are calculating your recipe in your lye calculator just use one oil coconut and enter 20 as the superfat.
No lye no soap.
Now you ll need to carefully make the lye solution.
Coconut oil stimulates hair growth fights dandruff prevents split ends adds shine and softness to the hair goat s milk is an amazing source of calcium protein phosphorous vitamin b2 and potassium.
Or rebatch ugly soap.
All amounts are per weight.
Rebatching cannot fix a bad recipe because the balance of oils and alkali should be correct start to finish.
There is no unreacted lye remaining in properly made soap.
Recipes that have seized discolored or in which the oils have separated.