Sweet68cam Posted August 7, 2005 Share Posted August 7, 2005 I have done some research and have not found a clear answer...can you use pure vegetable oil to make soap?? Mixed with other oils of course..such as coconut and olive..but can you use vegetable oil?? May sound like a dumb question but I am very new to cp soap making and need to know...TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebecca_IA Posted August 7, 2005 Share Posted August 7, 2005 Yes you can. All forms of vegetable oil are some type of oil, and what type they are can be found on the label, under ingredients. If there are more than one type of oil making up the vegetable oil, you'd need to know the percentages. You'd have to contact the maker to find out, sometimes you'll get an answer, sometimes not.When you figure your recipe, run the oils through a lye calculator. Oils can't be used interchangably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet68cam Posted August 7, 2005 Author Share Posted August 7, 2005 Yes you can. All forms of vegetable oil are some type of oil, and what type they are can be found on the label, under ingredients. If there are more than one type of oil making up the vegetable oil, you'd need to know the percentages. You'd have to contact the maker to find out, sometimes you'll get an answer, sometimes not.When you figure your recipe, run the oils through a lye calculator. Oils can't be used interchangably.Thank you very much, this helps alot!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet68cam Posted August 7, 2005 Author Share Posted August 7, 2005 okay this is strange....I just went and looked at the ingredients for my vegetable oil. I have 2 Crisco All Natural Pure Vegetabel oil bottles one big one and one small one...only difference from appearance is the size of the bottle....well surprise me and the ingredients are different. The large one says ingredients are soybean oil. The small one says canola oil, soybean oil. I wonder how the exact same brand and type of oil can have 2 different ingredients..lol:confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugenia Posted August 7, 2005 Share Posted August 7, 2005 That is very odd since they are both the same brand. I was going to point out that many vegetable oils are pure soybean but are less expensive than those labeled Soybean Oil.eokay this is strange....I just went and looked at the ingredients for my vegetable oil. I have 2 Crisco All Natural Pure Vegetabel oil bottles one big one and one small one...only difference from appearance is the size of the bottle....well surprise me and the ingredients are different. The large one says ingredients are soybean oil. The small one says canola oil, soybean oil. I wonder how the exact same brand and type of oil can have 2 different ingredients..lol:confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinInOR Posted August 7, 2005 Share Posted August 7, 2005 I've seen that too - manufacturers are adding more canola oil into their regular vegetable oils. Guess when they just call something vegetable oil, they use whatever is the cheapest Gotta always read the labels.. Canola has a SAP of .133, soybean of .136, so soybean will take a bit more lye than canola. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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