Help with Lye soap recipe

[squidstings]

What would help with, durability (?)/hardness (?)

 

I've been working on a healing, conditioning soap recipe for a few batches now. This one is ALMOST 100%. Better actually. Still figuring out all the benefits.

 

Problem is either "durability" or "hardness". I wipe a couple times on the forearm hair (not very hairy) and have enough there to do my whole body.

 

I've used all the ingredients before except for the oils and colloidal gold. "Durability" is only recently a category I've found discussed. Always figured that was part of "hardness".

 

Any suggestions to make this soap last longer or, easier to use?

 

Has some weird characteristics when diluted in distilled water too if anyone wants to take a crack at why this recipe turns into a, yogurt like gel, immediately and completely, in 4x DW.

 

Otherwise. Baby soft skin! for DAYS! No exaggeration. Use, enjoy. SHARE!

 

 

[TallTayl]

Hi there! 
 

im so happy you’ve mastered the soap calculator. It makes formulating incredibly easy. 
 

I have not yet had coffee, and will add more once I do, but here’s a favorite tale and a set of discussions that may help you out a little. 
 

“By my dear friend known elsewhere as Bandicoot from Oz: it is a common phenomenon, known as the soapers bell curve.  if X is your vertical line and represents dollars spent on insane exotic oils and Y is the horizontal line and represents total number of batches made, then you will see the completely predictable modest start-up figures by the newbie soaper as they rustle up some olive oil and shortening at the local grocer and cadge some free lard from their friendly local butcher (who has a secret crush on the soaper, anyway) and knock up a few bars of soap.  soon, they find the forums and the almost insatiable lust for novelty begins, as represented by the horrifically steep rise in the graph in the dollars sector as suddenly co-ops spring up for pure banana oil and extra virgin extra fast hypippamee oil for only fifty million dollars per quarter gram but OMG what it does to your soap......fricking AMAZING, mum........not to mention the concurrent and escalating discoveries at local healthfood shops where they have genuine wango-bango juice, but only in really small bottles and they want your bank statement before you purchase.  this all escalates exponentially.......a near-vertical rise in the graphline, until it tops out when the husband of the soapmaker mistakenly opens the soaper's credit card bill and lets out a scream only fruitbats can hear. crying and arguing and sternness ensues and the forlorn soaper has to agree to use up OLD bars of soap......made with OO and lard and shortening......before buying ANYTHING new.  suddenly the soaper realises with a shock that these humble bars are BLOODY good.....GREAT in fact! how can this be? there is nothing in them!!!  frenzied persual of archives and fatty acid property tables reveal the wonderful truth......when it comes to soapmaking, gentle readers, simple is best.  and cheap is NOT always nasty.  the graphline turns down IMMEDIATELY, the husband is quietened and the reformed soaper starts to think the local butcher is kinda cute...and his lard is FABULOUS in soap.....  and the soap-related spending is back on an even keel, the soap is wonderful, the husband is happy, the butcher is delirious and the laws of soapmaking and nature are satisfied.”

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