Honeybush Tea Soap

Recipe Instructions
Use Honeybush Tea instead of plain distilled water to make lye water (use 2 tea bags to brew tea).
Citric Acid (@ 2%) - dissolve in prepared tea BEFORE adding lye.
Additional lye (@ 2%) - dissolve in prepared tea with other lye amount.
Silk fibers - dissolve cotton ball size per pinch to prepared tea AFTER adding lye while the lye tea is still hot.
Sodium Lactate (@2%) - dissolve in cooled prepared tea AFTER adding lye, below 100 degrees.
Fragrance (@ 4%) - Afternoon Tea from Nurture Soap (add to soap batter at light trace).
Rate Recipe
Comments
Comment count:
Soap Properties
Highlighted gray ranges represent recommended ranges for each property.
100
80
60
40
20
0
INS: 167.34 (high)
iodine: 47.57 (ideal)
Calculated Values for Oils and Preferences
Superfat % | 12% |
Saturated | 37.64 Ounce(s) |
Mono-Unsaturated | 34.33 Ounce(s) |
Poly-Unsaturated | 3.94 Ounce(s) |
Saturated:Unsaturated Ratio | 50.41:49.59 |
Lye concentration | 100% |
Weight Unit | Ounce(s) |
Soap type | solid |
Fatty Acid Profile
Oleic | 35.72% |
Linoleic | 4.92% |
Linolenic | 0% |
Ricinoleic | 7.20% |
Lauric | 16.75% |
Myristic | 6.68% |
Palmitic | 11.11% |
Stearic | 12.52% |
Recommended Additive Amounts
Swipe on table to see all values
For Advanced Soapmakers
Sodium Lactate (60%)
|
| ||||||
Recommended Essential/Fragrance Oil | 3.50 Ounce(s) | ||||||
Ascorbic Acid
| 0.80 Ounce(s) | ||||||
Extra Lye to Neutralize Ascorbic Acid for A.A. | NaOH: 0.16 Ounce(s) | ||||||
Lactic Acid
| 0.60 Ounce(s) | ||||||
Extra Lye to Neutralize Lactic Acid for L.A. | NaOH: 0.36 Ounce(s) | ||||||
Tetrasodium EDTA
| 0.56 Ounce(s) | ||||||
Sodium Citrate
| 1.04 - 3.12 Ounce(s) | ||||||
Potassium Citrate
| 1.28 - 3.84 Ounce(s) | ||||||
Rosemary Oleoresin (ROE)
| 0.03 - 0.04 Ounce(s) | ||||||
Citric Acid Powder (anhydrous) |
| ||||||
Extra Lye to Neutralize Citric Acid Powder for C.A. |
|