Opinions, please on recipe

[beau's mama]

I'm trying to reduce the cost of my soap down to a 3-4 oil soap. I've used Crisco before, but only in small amounts, so can ya'll take a look at this and let me know what you think? Not aiming for anything super special, just a pretty basic bar that's not drying. Not sure if I should keep the SF @ 5% or up it to 7% (?) Maybe upping it will help the Crisco & the OO become good friends and give me a bit more conditioning somewhere down the line.

Oh, BTW it's the "new" Crisco...Soybean & Palm

Am I going in the right direction?

All help and advice is appreciated.

TIA

Sharon

Coconut 46%

Crisco 45%

Castor Oil 7%

Olive 2%

Hardness: 48

Cleansing: 31

Conditioning: 45

Bubbly: 37

Creamy: 24

Iodine : 54

INS: 179

Edited September 6, 2009 by beau's mama

[hem06]

How about:

Coconut: 25%

Castor: 8%

Crisco: 45%

Olive: 22%

Hardness:35

Cleansing: 17

Conditioning: 60

Bubbly: 24

Creamy: 25

...and you can add sugar to the water prior to the lye to up bubbles if you are not happy with the bubbles. You can also add sodium lactate for hardness (or a couple of tablespoons of salt ppo, that is what I use)

This is a much more conditioning recipe

[Carrie]

You can also add Lard unless you have an aversion to animal fats.

It's funny that most commercial soaps have beef tallow in them but people shy away from animal fats in handmade product.

Lard is less expensive than crisco and the ingredient list doesn't change.

I also agree with hem06 that you should keep the coconut amount down. I personally use 15%. There are too many people out there that are sensitive to CO over 15-20%.

[3bees~1flower]

i agree...that is A LOT of CO...46 isn't very conditioning, IMO, but then i try to kep my conditioning numbers between 57-60. i would lower the CO and up the olive. i know olive is more $$ than CO, but that recipe looks it wold be terribly drying, unless you are doing a high SF.

[Fire and Ice]

I agree. Lard is much cheaper to use than Crisco. And I drop the coconut way down and sub lard in it's place. Please don't get me wrong, I like Crisco too and I use it in some soaps but lard is still cheaper.

Edited September 11, 2009 by Fire and Ice

[Carriegsxr6]

Always stay around 30% with the coconut oil

Here is a recipe using the same oils, just adjusted amounts.

It yeilds 2lbs (32oz)

Crisco 8oz (25%)

Castor 2oz (6.25%)

Coconut Oil 10oz (31.25%)

Olive 12oz (37.5%)