Clear melt and pour soap base
Recipe Instructions
melt oils, dissolve lye and stir thoroughly.
add lye water carefully stirring well and bring to medium trace.
leave to cook and gel.
once at gel stage add propylene glycol and stir really well.
next add veg glycerine again stir in really well.
finally add sugar water solution and mix in really well.
cook for 20-40
mins and keep stirring so there is no skin appearing and nice and clear.
pour into mould.
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danielle
2/21/2020 10:07:37 PM
2/21/2020 10:07:37 PM
I have a few questions. It says to add water and sugar solution, yet there's no water, only sugar? Second recipe, you keep referring to cook (leave to cook and gel), (cook for 20-40 min). By "cook", do you mean just let it sit? Thank you
Soap Properties
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INS: 140.12 (ideal)
iodine: 62.06 (ideal)
Calculated Values for Oils and Preferences
| Superfat % | 5% |
| Saturated | 5.99 Ounce(s) |
| Mono-Unsaturated | 6.52 Ounce(s) |
| Poly-Unsaturated | 3.04 Ounce(s) |
| Saturated:Unsaturated Ratio | 61.46:38.54 |
| Lye concentration | 100% |
| Weight Unit | Ounce(s) |
| Soap type | solid |
Fatty Acid Profile
| Oleic | 22.44% |
| Linoleic | 14.30% |
| Linolenic | 3.60% |
| Ricinoleic | 15.88% |
| Lauric | 5.53% |
| Myristic | 2.24% |
| Palmitic | 14.19% |
| Stearic | 13.31% |
Recommended Additive Amounts
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For Advanced Soapmakers
| Sodium Lactate (60%)
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| Recommended Essential/Fragrance Oil | 0.74 Ounce(s) | ||||||
| Ascorbic Acid
| 0.17 Ounce(s) | ||||||
| Extra Lye to Neutralize Ascorbic Acid for A.A. | NaOH: 0.03 Ounce(s) | ||||||
| Lactic Acid
| 0.13 Ounce(s) | ||||||
| Extra Lye to Neutralize Lactic Acid for L.A. | NaOH: 0.08 Ounce(s) | ||||||
| Tetrasodium EDTA
| 0.13 Ounce(s) | ||||||
| Sodium Citrate
| 0.22 - 0.66 Ounce(s) | ||||||
| Potassium Citrate
| 0.27 - 0.82 Ounce(s) | ||||||
| Rosemary Oleoresin (ROE)
| 0.07 - 0.09 Ounce(s) | ||||||
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Citric Acid Powder (anhydrous) |
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Extra Lye to Neutralize Citric Acid Powder for C.A. |
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