babygirl Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 After much reading I am not understanding how you know how much of everything to put in a recipe. Everything is listed by percentage how do I figure out actual amounts? Am I missing something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LovelyLathers Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 Everything you make has to have 100%. You must have the amount you want for the end result in oz, lbs, grams then divide each ingredient by the percent, so say you have 5 ingredients and say you want 10 ozs of final product. Each ingredient is 10% then you need 2 ozs of each product to reach 100%. Another example is25 % coconut oil25% palm oil25% shea butter25% oatmeal====100%converted to oz for a final amount of 100 ozs would be25 oz of coconut25 ozs palm25oz shea25 oz oatmeal===100 oz or 100%I hope that helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebeccajo99 Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 an easy way to figure out how much you need with the percents is going to a lye calculator and plugging in the recipe. I like http://www.soapcalc.net/calc/soapcalcWP.asp as I can type in how many oz/lbs/grams I want in my combinded oils (section #2) and it will figure it all out for me and tell me how much lye and water I need. Figuring that all out on my own would make me very nervous that I would mess up the calculations somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissMori Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 Easiest way is to use SoapCalc.If you want to do the math yourself, here's how:For percentages, you first determine the size of your batch of oils. Say you are doing 800 grams and you want coconut to be 33% of the total. Multiply 800 by .33 and you get your coconut amount. 800 X .33 = 264 gramsYou always multiply your batch size by the percentage. Let's do a recipe, 800 gram batch size. I'm randomly choosing oils and their percentages. I have NOT made this recipe, using it as an example.40% coconut ... 800 x .40 = 320grams20% palm ... 800 x .20 = 160 grams25% olive oil ... 800 x .25 = 200 grams5% shea butter ... 800 x .05 = 40 grams5% caster oil ... 800 x .05 = 40 grams2% bees wax ... 800 x 02 = 16 grams3% cocoa butter ... 800 x .03 = 24 gramsNow lets add it all together to maker sure we did it correctly:320 + 160 + 200 + 40 + 40 + 16 + 24 = ?Much easier to do it with soapcalc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.