Question about cutting a recipefrom 12lbs to 4lb

[JMCintosh]

I came across a recipe on line and wrote it down, thought I would try it. But, it is makes 12 lbs and I would like to cut it down to around 2 or 4 lbs.

3 lbs Distilled Water

17 ozs Lye (Sodium Hydroxide)

4 lbs Olive Oil

2 lbs, 8 ozs Coconut Oil

1 lb, 8 ozs Palm Oil

1 oz. Grapefruit Seed Extract (optional)

To Superfat: add 3.2 ozs of shea butter to the oils.

4 -6 ozs of essential or fragrance oil

Temperature 90°-110° - 4 week cure time

How does a person go about cutting it down, and taking out the grapeseed oil?

The reason for this is because, I don't have a container to hold a recipe this size and I have all the oils just not the amounts. This is the amounts I have: Olive oil 16 oz, Coconut oil 32 oz, Palm oil 16 oz, Shea 15 oz. If any one can help me by showing me a way to configure this I would be so thankful. I have tried the soapcalc and I am still learning how to use it.

[CareBear]

go to soapcalc.com there you can enter a recipe in ounces and have it converted to percents and then reconvert back to the batch size you want.

or do it by hand - you should be able to calculate percentages.

[Carrie]

Actually, I use the lye calc at MMS to re-size. I would enter all the ingrediens, click the calculate button then resize at the bottom of the page. If you want 4lbs, just tell it to re-calculate to 4lbs. Very easy.