This is beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing this. Please, Can i substitute the Olive oil with Canola oil ? Or with Soybean Oil? I will greatly appreciate your favorable response please.👍👍👍
Hello, thanks a lot for your interest!! The answer to your question is yes, but it's not straightforward. In fact, you need to treat it like a different recipe. If you change one of the oils, you NEED to recalculate the recipe with a soap calculator (soapcalc.net/calc/SoapCalcWP.asp) to get the right amount of lye/potash and water. Otherwise, you might get an irritant soap: all lye needs to be consumed by the oils, and it's calculated having that in mind. If you change an oil, you change that ability of the oils to consume all the lye. So, you need to recalculate it all.
If you want to use canola oil instead of olive oil the recipe quantities would be: 187g distilled water 79g of potash 120g coconut oil 220g canola oil 60g shea butter You can give it a try with these quantities. Bear in mind the soap might become a little different.
Hello kristen. I use normal pump dispensers for this soap, therefore, no, never tried a foaming dispenser. On the other hand, I see no reason not to work. Start undiluted then go for 1:1 dilution, 1:2 dilution and see how it performs. It will have to be trial-and-error for a bit till you know a good dilution. Would love to help more... Cheers.
Hello Michael, thanks for your question. No, you can't change oils just like that, not without running the recipe over a soap calculator. You will need to recalculate potash and water contents again for castor oil. Here is my post about changing soap recipes, I suggest to read it carefully: herbalcochete.com/how-do-you-use-a-lye-soap-calculator/ But I am curious: why castor oil? You have it cheap at your home or area? Here in Portugal is expensive, compared to olive oil.
