ah-soy Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Other than high coconut oil recipes where you use 15 to 20% superfat, what's the highest superfat you have ever used?I've been making a 50% coconut/pko recipe with shea, olive and castor and figured...what the heck. For my dry ole' skin, I tried upping the SF to 20% just to see what it would feel like. Well, it feels great! I did find a loss of big fluffy bubbles at the beginning, but still got the wonderful creamy bubbles as I washed. So, made a couple more batches and added a TBS of sugar ppo, and got fast fluffy bubbles galore. It makes a nice, hard bubbly bar.This was a tweak of Darwin's basic recipe which I've made for several years now, but as I got older and my skin got dryer, I found a need to keep upping the SF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarieJeanette Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Other than with high CO/PKO recipes, the highest superfat I've ever used was somewhere around 23% to 25%, but it was as a result of a major accidental weighing mistake- in a canola oil soap no less, wouldn't you know it- not exactly the best kind of oil to be using when making such kind of mistakes. Needless to say it DOSed big time and had to be tossed out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ah-soy Posted July 3, 2012 Author Share Posted July 3, 2012 Other than with high CO/PKO recipes, the highest superfat I've ever used was somewhere around 23% to 25%, but it was as a result of a major accidental weighing mistake- in a canola oil soap no less, wouldn't you know it- not exactly the best kind of oil to be using when making such kind of mistakes. Needless to say it DOSed big time and had to be tossed out.Oh no, canola is certainly one not to do that with! My linoleic numbers with this recipe are only at 5 or 6 so I should be OK when it comes to DOS, but ya never know! I'll have to see what happens with them as time go by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CareBear Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 20% in my 100% coconut soap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitn Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 I go 15% in my avocado oil soap blend that I make for me and dh.. It is great on dry skin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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