One More Salt Bar Question

[thesoapbox]

If I use the following recipe, what percentage sea salt would I add?

Coconut Oil - 75%

Shea Butter - 25%

Is it equal to only the oil, or is it equal to the entire recipe?

Angi

The Soap Box

[Grumpy Girl]

I've never been able to use sea salt, only UN-iodized table salt. I use it at 50% of my base oils.

[dirtybirdsoaps]

It would be equal to the coconut oil, and the shea. You can find table salt that is sea salt but you CANNOT use dead sea salt. I find that out when I ran out of sea salt.

[doris]

Total # of ounces of oils is how much salt you want: 100 oz of oils means 100 oz of salt. Also, along with dead sea salt, you CANNOT use epsom salt.

[thesoapbox]

Thanks for all the replies !

Angi

The Soap Box

[HelenW]

Coconut Oil - 75%

Shea Butter - 25%

Is it equal to only the oil, or is it equal to the entire recipe?

Total # of ounces of oils is how much salt you want

I use it at 50% of my base oils.

Now, I am really confused. :confused: . When you say oils, are you also including butters in that statement. Sorry, to be so anal.

I thought it was total amount of oils/butters used. ie. 33 oz. Coconut Oil and 11 oz. of Shea butter used, so 44 oz. of salt would be added.

I use it at 50% of my base oils.

Now that is interesting, does this make a hard bar? Also, just to clarify and make sure I understand this correctly, you would use 22 oz. of salt in your recipe.

Also, does anyone superfat their Salt Bar Recipe and if so, what rate do you Superfat at?

[Grumpy Girl]

Helen, if you want to use 25 oz of oils and butters, you want to add 25 oz of salt at a light trace. It's a 1/1 ratio. Salt is basically doubling your recipe.

I superfat mine at 6% and the bar is hard as hell.

[sudsnwicks]

Salt is basically doubling your recipe.

So let's say I normally do a 2-lb batch (32 oz of oils) and have a mold that fits exactly this batch size. If I wanted the salt bars to fit this mold, should I use 16 oz of oils and 16 oz of salt? Or should I use a little more oil since some of the salt would 'dissolve' into the mixture?

[Grumpy Girl]

You'd use 16oz of salt and 16oz of oils. I wouldn't add extra... it doesn't dissolve like you think it does.

[sudsnwicks]

Thank you Grumpy!

[NyAshia]

Why can't dead sea salt or epsom salt be used? Does it react negatively with the lye solution?